eLearning
inDepthLearning
"inDepthLearning is a non-profit, 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization dedicated to expanding the way teens learn. Using evidence-based reasoning to solve puzzles in web-based games, students also strengthen skills in observation, inquiry, and critical thinking. We’re now looking for schools to evaluate a new version of Drug Scene Investigators, our series of innovative games that teach about drugs of abuse."
Edutainment/eLearning
Document
Puzzle
Technology
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Game Design and Development
Web Applications
Teens
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Firsthand Technology
"Since 1995, Firsthand has been creating interactive Virtual Reality applications for education, training, business, research and therapy. Our services include creative design, application development, immersive displays, and customized turnkey VR hardware systems."
Educational
Simulation
Human Interest
Mixed reality
Reality
Technology
User interface techniques
Virtual reality
Software Company
Software and Hardware Applications
Technology
Virtual Realities
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It's time to eat! Using mobile games to promote healthy eating
Pollak, J., Gay, G., Byrne, S., Wagner, E., Retelny, D., & Humphreys, L. (2010). It's time to eat! Using mobile games to promote healthy eating. IEEE Pervasive Computing, 9(3), 21-27.
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Ubiquitous computing
XML
Pre-Teens
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Avatar assistant: Improving social skills in students with an ASD through a computer-based intervention
Hopkins, I. M., Gower, M. W., Perez, T. A., Smith, D. S., Amthor, F. R., Casey Wimsatt, F., & Biasini, F. J. (2011). Avatar assistant: Improving social skills in students with an ASD through a computer-based intervention. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 41(11), 1543-1555.
Social Issues and Skills
Autism
Avatar
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Clinical psychology
Pervasive developmental disorders
Psychology
Technology
William Wimsatt
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The Quest to Lava Mountain
"Nonprofit medicine research and education company The Cooper Institute is fighting childhood obesity with The Quest to Lava Mountain, an educational game targeted at grade school children.
Bariatrics
Body shape
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Childhood obesity
Educational game
Health
Hospitality
Lava
Medicine
Metabolic disorders
Nature
Nutrition
Obesity
Technology
XML
company
Cooper
education
game
Institute
Lava Mountain
medicine
obesity
Quest
research
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Electrocardiogram
"This game lets you explore the key elements of the electrocardiogram from how to place the electrodes on the body for measuring the heart beats to how to analyze the mountains and valleys in the E
Online
Pre-Teens
Teens
Young Adults
Biology
Bundle branch block
Cardiac dysrhythmia
Cardiac electrophysiology
Cardiology
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Circulatory system
Electrocardiography
Electrophysiology
Health
Heart
Medical emergencies
Medical tests
Medicine
Myocardial infarction
Technology
http://www.nobelprize.org/educational/medicine/ecg/ecg.html
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The Split Brain Experiments
"In this game you perform the classic split brain experiment used by Nobel Laureate Roger Sperry when he discovered differences between the right and left hemispheres of the brain."
Online
Pre-Teens
Teens
Young Adults
Biology
Brain
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Central nervous system
Cerebral hemisphere
Nervous system
Neurobiologists
Nobel Prize
Roger Wolcott Sperry
Split-brain
Technology
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Blood Typing
"In this game you have to blood type three patients and give them blood transfusions. Are you able to do that?
Online
Anatomy
Biology
Blood
Blood transfusion
Blood type
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Cross-matching
Hematology
Human blood group systems
Karl Landsteiner
Medicine
Technology
Transfusion medicine
Pre-Teens
Teens
Young Adults
http://www.nobelprize.org/educational/medicine/landsteiner/landsteiner.html
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The Diabetic Dog
"In this game your dog has type-1 diabetes. This is a very serious disease. With proper treatment, however, your dog can live a happy life for many years.
Online
Pre-Teens
Teens
Young Adults
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Diabetes
Diabetes mellitus
Eli Lilly and Company
Endocrine system
Health
Insulin
Medicine
Technology
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Immune Responses
"Go through ten interactive stops and find out how our immune system protects us and sometimes could harm us."
Infectious Disease
Online
Pre-Teens
Teens
Young Adults
Immune system
Nobel Prize
Technology
XML
http://www.nobelprize.org/educational/medicine/immuneresponses/game/index.html