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Karen Schrier is an Assistant Professor of Media Arts at Marist College and Director of the Games and Emerging Media program. She joins the podcast to discuss some of the ethical issues around the use of games in education.

Tina Goodyear, , joins the podcast to discuss recent efforts exploring the need for a quality assurance entity (QAE) for alternative education providers, such as coding bootcamps. The project, led by the Presidents’ Forum and Distance Education Accreditation Commission (DEAC), is being funded by a $150,000 planning grant from USA Funds.   Resources

Nick Fortugno is recognized around the world as a leading game designer, narrative and story expert as well as an entrepreneur of digital and real-world games. The chief creative officer of Playmatics joins the podcast to discuss his upcoming presentation at Revolutionary Learning 2016: Storytelling for Learning. Resources

Clark Aldrich, one of the top educational simulation designers in the world and the founder and Managing Partner of Clark Aldrich Designs, joins the podcast to discuss the game changing nature of short simulations as an educational tool. 

Tina Goodyear, COO of the Presidents’ Forum, joins Excelsior Live to discuss the new Consortium for the Assessment of College Equivalency, which brings together six institutions with expertise in Prior Learning Assessment and allows them to collaborate, pool their resources, and set common standards that could drastically improve how all of higher education facilitates the awarding of academic credit for workplace training.   Resources (WCET)

In part two of the interview with the co-founders of Affordance Studio, Avery Rueb, discusses his Revoluionary Learning 2016 presentation: Brainstorm Cards: Playing a Card Game to Learn about Good Game Design.