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During the webinar hosted by WG5, scheduled for Friday, May 23, 2025, from 18:00 CET, Marco Tibaldini will present Games as educational tools in Antiquity

Abstract: Using games for educational purposes it is not a new idea, but has a long history that dates to Antiquity. At that time teachers didn’t invented educational games like we are used to do today, but however they had a very clear idea of the educational potentials of gaming activity. During this lecture will be briefly outlined the history of Gamification and Game Based Learning through a selection of literary passages taken from Greek and Latin literature.

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ACTION CA22145

GameTable – Computational Techniques for Tabletop Games Heritage. An international and interdisciplinary network of scholars and stakeholders from all career stages across academia, industry, and heritage institutions to inspire methodologies and applications on how to use game AI to study, reconstruct, and preserve the intangible cultural heritage of games.

Action Details

Action Chair: Dr. Éric Piette
Start Date: 24 October 2023
End Date: 23 October 2027
Approval date: 16 May 2023
Grant Holder: UCLouvain

Email: eric.piette@uclouvain.be

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