[game_edu] guidance for students and parents

[Darius Kazemi]

Jeff Ward's article, "Choosing a Game School," is my favorite place to send
students who are asking what kind of school they should go to. It's very
even-handed and the basic thesis is: choose the school that you feel you
will be most successful attending.
http://www.gamecareerguide.com/features/298/choosing_a_.php

-Darius

On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 5:44 PM, Roberts, Scott <sroberts at cim.depaul.edu>wrote:


> All the recent posts on "those" programs and the all the "other" evil

> schools/administrators are entertaining, but I'm not sure who they're aimed

> at.  Are there members of those schools subscribed to this list?  If so,

> they must have thick skin to take all this venting.  (And is it just my

> imagination, or does this thread happen every year following GDC?)

>

> It doesn't appear that anyone is proposing real, concrete actions to

> improve the situation.  I think it's inappropriate for this group to publish

> a list of predatory schools, and problematic to list schools that are AOK

> (the specter of the IGDA stamp of approval).  What is appropriate is to

> present a list of what students and parents should look for: positives and

> warning signs.  Do we have something like this and I've just missed it?  I

> wasn't able to locate it on the SIG site.

>

> Breaking In

> I'm embarrassed to say that I just noticed the IGDA Breaking In site:

> http://www.igda.org/breakingin/ , and I have no idea how old it is.  It

> appears to be meant to encourage students to get into the industry, but

> there's no real guidance of any kind for choosing a good school (at least

> that I could find).

>

> Can I propose that we try to add some education advice to this site, and

> then all work to link to that location from our program sites?  That would

> raise the chances of students finding the site (through a better Google

> rating based on our traffic) and avoiding some of these predators.  FIEA has

> a list of questions for prospective students to ask:

> http://www.fiea.ucf.edu/shield/showpage.php?page_id=1007 , and I liked it

> so much that we made our own version:

> http://gamedev.depaul.edu/?page_id=38  I'm sure many schools have their

> own versions.

>

> Maybe something like this could help the situation, and we'll have less to

> gripe about next year.  :)

>

> Scott

>

>

> Scott Roberts

> Associate Professor

> School of Cinema & Interactive Media

> DePaul University

> sroberts at CIM.depaul.edu

>

> http://GameDev.DePaul.edu/

>

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