http://cle.usu.edu/CLE_IF_AUSFLUG.html

With colleagues from Utah State University (Brett Shelton) and University of Northern Iowa (Brian McInnis), I conducted research on the efficacy of interactive fiction as an instructional platform. Interesting findings can be found here:

http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a917022078~frm=titlelink

Although recently I have been moving more into 3D, I still use IF as a springboard for German students at in an intermediate conversation course Elon University to help them understand that languages – and their sociocultural contexts – are essentially playful systems:

http://facstaff.elon.edu/dneville/teaching/images/germ_321_syllabus.pdf

Because of the openness of some of the assignments, I ended up having two students create three IF short projects as submissions for assignments for which other students in the class submitted other media (digital stories, remix and mashup videos, and video essays).

All three are posted on the course wiki, which is public:

http://acpartcult10.pbworks.com/browse/#view=ViewAllFiles&param=All%2520Files

Author’s Statements (part of the assignments) are here:

http://wcherm8.wordpress.com/2010/05/15/authors-statement-austin-college-hangover-interactive-fiction/

http://gambleswithwords.wordpress.com/2010/03/26/authors-statement-how-to-make-a-text-adventure-in-6483-easy-steps/

http://gambleswithwords.wordpress.com/2010/05/14/authors-note-sidelife-halfwinder/

I’d (and I’m sure my students would also be) very interested to hear your thoughts.

we do an extensive project using Inform 7 in our New Media Perspectives course at Tunxis Community College.  Here’s a link to our recent calendar.

Students take their finished IF project and rethink its structure and contents in Tinderbox.  It’s an interesting process and loaded with interesting teaching and learning issues.

I feel silly for having forgetten the lists that Emily compiled, but I’m glad this post is resulting in a few more courses and projects to add to those.

IF-Theoretiker Nick Montfort wirft erneut die Frage auf, wie und wo Interactive Fiction in der höheren Schulbildung verwendet wird. Außer dem Educational Gaming Commons-Projekt EGC Paper Chase der Pennsylvania State University vom April 2010, das in di…

Add my Writing for Games course to the list: we have gone through quite a few IF works, both old and contemporary. Inform is also one of the platforms of choice for the assignments in the course; although it is not obligatory, about half the students opted to create IF pieces in every individual assignment.

The syllabus [available only within MIT]

It’d be good to know about work using other systems, such as Inform 6 and TADS. I heard a presentation in New York a while ago about a MOO being used essentially as an IF system to simulate a physics lab, so there are other possibilities, too.

http://inform7.com/teach/ (and its related pages)
http://emshort.wordpress.com/how-to-play/teaching-if/