Session Title: A Renaissance Degree for the Digital Generation

 

Session Number: 223

 

Room: Coronado D

 

Day and Timeslot: Monday - 11:15am to 12:15pm

 

Formats: Learning Story

 

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Session Description: In time-warp speed, video games grew from penny arcades to big business, from fringe to mainstream entertainment. In the same breadth, game development has become one of the hottest degrees on college campuses. What distinguishes degree programs? What skills does the electronic game industry require? How will game curriculums impact future employees and leaders? Join an academic and an industry academic liaison in an open-ended discussion of these and other questions.

 

• Different academic approaches to game development
• The appeal of game development to the "Digital Natives"
• Skill sets that industries look for in game development graduates and the value this type of education brings to our collective future

 

Led by: Ann DeMarle - Emergent Media Center at Champlain College

 

Ann DeMarle is the Director of the Emergent Media Center at Champlain College. In 2006, she became the first recipient of the Roger H. Perry Endowed Chair, established to support initiatives promoting innovation, change and entrepreneurship at the College. Formerly the Director of the Multimedia and Graphic Design and founding director of the Electronic Game programs, Ann used the endowment to create an on-campus center dedicated to emergent media. Core components of the center's mission include project-based learning, industry partnerships, academic exchanges, education impacting emergent technologies, and creation of "serious games" or games that create positive change.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Led by: Jack Lew - Electronic Arts

 

Jack Lew is the Global University Relations Art Manager at Electronic Arts. In this role he is responsible for developing a pipeline of talent to feed the growing needs of the company. In the past 3 years, he has visited over 48 colleges throughout the US and Canada identifying top art programs where EA can recruit for internships and new college grad hires. Prior to entering the Entertainment Industry, Jack was a Professor of Art and Department Head at the Kansas City Art Institute.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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