Caspian Learning : Award Winning Serious Games Designer

Caspian Learning Announce £3000 Serious Games Challenge

admin — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 12:13:56 +0000

Caspian Learning today announced their plans to launch a Serious Games Challenge worth £3000 to the winner. The competition will be completely free to enter and open to all aspiring instructional designers. Caspian Learning will also be providing designers with free trial copies of their proprietary 3d engine and authoring tool, Thinking Worlds, to allow them to take part in the challenge.

" />Caspian Learning, award winning developer of Thinking Worlds, a commercially available software platform that enables the cost-effective, rapid development of engaging 3D immersive learning simulations and serious games, today announced plans to launch their first Serious Games Challenge at the Game Based Learning Conference on 28th March 2010. The challenge will pit instructional designers of all experience levels against each other in a 30 day Serious Games Challenge to create the most innovative learning simulation using drag and drop Thinking Worlds technology.

Lee Rushworth, Marketing Executive for Caspian Learning, said that he “hoped the challenge would encourage instructional designers who had expressed an interest in 3d simulations but not yet made the jump to develop in 3d to take up the challenge and let their creativity run wild.”

The Serious Games Challenge will be launched from Caspian Learning’s ‘Experience Lounge’ exhibition stand at the Game Based Learning conference on 28th March 2010. The £3000 Serious Games Challenge will be open to everyone, whether individual or corporate, and will last for 30 days. Entries will be valid until the 30th April, at which time, Caspian Learning’s industry-leading design team will select a winner from the entries.
The winner will be the designer (or team) that submits the most innovative 3d learning, training or performance simulation by the 30th April 2010. The winner of the challenge will receive a licensed copy of Thinking Worlds Standard, worth £3000.

The challenge marks the first of its kind and Lee Rushworth said that he thought “the challenge would mark an important stage in the lifecycle of browser based 3d simulations that makes the technology available to create them both accessible and affordable and would firmly underline the growing demand for more immersive learning simulations.”

To take part in the 30 Day Serious Games Challenge, all you need to do is download a free trial copy of Thinking Worlds and submit your entries by April 30th, 30 days after the Experience Lounge launch.

Download your free trial from the following url:
http://www.thinkingworlds.com

Game Based Learning : March 29th – 30th

admin — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 10:40:19 +0000

Caspian Learning will once again be exhibiting at the Game Based Learning conference in March at The Brewery venue in London. After the success of last year, we wanted to offer even more this time round, so we’ve decided to take part in the Experience Lounge. We’ll be doing some hands on demonstrations of how easy it is to build immersive learning simulations with Thinking Worlds, our globally unique 3d serious games engine and authoring tool. Our technology is going to allow you, as someone who has never created 3d games before, to be able to create your own in 30 minutes! If you want to pre-register your interest for this experience, send an email to lee.rushworth at caspianlearning.co.uk and we’ll make sure you get involved!

Gametech, Orlando, Florida

admin — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 09:28:35 +0000

Caspian Learning will be exhibiting at the GameTech conference in Orlando, Florida on March 29th – 31st 2010. If you’re going to be there, we’d love to have a chat! We’ll be showing off some of our award winning military simulations along with some serious games designed for effective, safe fail border control training. We’ll also be showing off our 3d simulation tool, Thinking Worlds, which is the backbone to simulations developed by Caspian Learning. As usual, we’ll be on hand to talk about anything Thinking Worlds, Caspian Learning or simulations in general and we hope you’ll take time out to come and see us.

For a sneak preview of some of these games, why not have a look at these demo videos?

GameTech is a unique user-focused conference dealing with gaming technologies that enhance warfighter training. Gaming experts will discuss the current state of game technologies. Government, industry and academia will share knowledge, research and technology on virtual worlds and games for training.

Caspian Learning Talk 3d Simulations at Learning Technologies 2010

admin — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 22:00:29 +0000

Caspian Learning were one of a small handful of immersive learning simulations providers exhibiting at this year’s Learning Technologies exhibition at the Olympia, London. Learning Technologies is Europe’s largest showcase and exhibition for ‘technology supported workplace learning’. The event was a huge success for Caspian Learning, whose Thinking Worlds 3d Engine and Authoring Tool was the key protaganist. Serious games created purely in Thinking Worlds were being demonstrated by Caspian Learning and the game-like 3d avatars and environments drummed up huge interest from all corners of the exhibition. Graeme Duncan, CEO of Caspian Learning, managed to find 10 minutes out of a hectic schedule to show off Thinking Worlds:

For more information or to book your place for next year’s Learning Technologies, visit the Learning Technologies website and for more information about Thinking Worlds, have a look here.

ITEC 2010: May 18th – 20th

admin — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 20:14:17 +0000

Caspian Learning will be exhibiting at ITEC 2010 in ExCel, London. The exhibition will be taking place on May 18th to the 20th and there will be lots of opportunities to speak to the technology developers about the future direction of Thinking Worlds technology. If you’d like to pre-register your interest in our stand then please feel free to contact us and let us know you’ll be stopping by.

Caspian Learning appoint John Higgins as President of US operations and open first US office

admin — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 20:35:41 +0000

London UK, 11th January 2010:

Caspian Learning, award winning developer of Thinking Worlds, a commercially available software platform that enables the rapid development of highly engaging 3D immersive learning simulations and games announced the appointment of John Higgins as President of US Operations today. Prior to joining Caspian Learning, John served as the global Senior Director of Innovation Deployment for Accenture HR & Learning BPO Services. John has also held senior leadership positions with BearingPoint, KPMG, and IBM.

The appointment marks a positive step for Caspian Learning in the face of industry cutbacks and newly appointed US President John said that “working for Caspian would provide an exciting challenge in a tough climate where opportunities for growth exist for companies that offer innovative and cost-saving products to the marketplace,” and that he was “confident that Caspian’s globally unique technology would set even higher standards in the rapid development of browser based, 3d immersive simulations for training and engagement.”

John’s appointment has facilitated the opening of Caspian’s first US office in Irving, Texas and Caspian’s US operations now include a number of US-based employees whose goal will be to drive the company’s expansion into the new market.

Graeme Duncan, CEO of Caspian Learning, said that “John’s appointment and the establishment of our US headquarters represents our ongoing commitment to continuously deliver immersive, engaging 3d simulations for training and engagement to a growing portfolio of international corporations.”

Caspian Learning’s Thinking Worlds Wins LearnTrends Award for Innovation in Learning

admin — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 10:10:04 +0000

The second Corporate Learning and Innovations Conference (or LearnTrends for short) came to a close on 20^th November 2009 and it was Caspian Learning’s Thinking Worlds authoring tool that took home the award for Innovation in Learning. The Conference took place over 4 days in a series of online sessions as part of an effort to bring together people who look at different aspects of learning and knowledge work from around the world. The theme for the conference was Convergence in Workplace Learning and as part of the conference; an awards ceremony was held which highlighted some of this year’s most innovative tools for corporate learning.

The awards were judged by author and ex CEO of eLearning Forum, Jay Cross, CEO of TechEmpower and e-learning technologist Dr. Tony Karrer and associate director of R&D at the Learning Technologies Centre in the University of Manitoba and founder of Complexive Systems inc., George Siemens.

The conference was all about getting together interesting people who bring with them different perspectives and meaningful conversations around innovation in workplace learning. Over a thousand people signed up to the event and there was at least a hundred in each session.

Whilst presenting the award to Thinking Worlds, Jay Cross said that the tool was “really exciting and just wonderful,” and George Siemens outlined the authoring tool’s simplicity of use and ability to create 3d immersive simulations for low cost and in a short timeframe as reasons why the tool was so interesting and deserving of an award for innovation.

Caspian Learning Wins More Awards

admin — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 23:40:43 +0000

It’s just been announced that Caspian Learning have picked up another two awards tonight at the eLearning Age Awards 2009. Caspian won the Gold Award for ‘Best Learning Game’ with their immersive simulation for the UK Navy and the Maritime Warfare School. Caspian also picked up the Silver Award for the ‘Most Innovative New Tool.’ Congratulations to everyone on the development teams!

Caspian Learning bylined in Changeboard

admin — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 16:14:10 +0000

Caspian Learning were today bylined in the Changeboard HR magazine where Caspian CEO, Graeme Duncan discussed how 3D learning is used to deliver training in all economic climates.

Full article:
http://www.caspianlearning.co.uk/Changeboard-December08.pdf

Caspian Launches Christmas Carnage on Facebook

admin — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 09:42:43 +0000

Award winning e-learning company, Caspian Learning have joined in the Christmas cheer. They have created a fun, innovative way to spend that extra 5 minutes you have on your lunch hour and at the same time, connect with your friends.

Using popular social networking site, Facebook, they have delivered an excellent mini-game, themed around the snowy gooey goodness that is the time to be jolly.

You play the part of Rudolph the reindeer, and after Santa has crash landed in a little hamlet, somewhere off the edge of nowhere, he has given you an important task. The presents have escaped from the sleigh, and the naughty elves are running around creating havoc! So, it’s up to you, to collect as many presents as you can, and smack the naughty elves around the head with your mallet.

Get the Highest score! Compete with your friends! Collect Facebook gifts in-game, such as “Brain Training with Paris”, and send them on to someone you like (or to someone you don’t, if it’s the “Nose Picker with ElfSnot”)! If you have a spare 5 minutes, share the gift of fun this Christmas. Go create Christmas Carnage!

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