[game_edu] Readings, Libraries & Copyright

[Jose P. Zagal]

We've had a reasonably degree of success using a combination of managed 
game labs (both a PC as well as a console lab), loans from 
personal/instructor collections, and required purchases/free games. The 
managed labs work best for AAA titles or recent releases, 
personal/instructor collections for the harder to find games.

Ultimately what you choose to do probably depends more on the nature of 
the assignments/work you want students to do than anything else.



Jose








> As a lecturer in game design, I want to set a 'reading list' of games  

> for my students to play. In other disciplines the University has  

> standard copyright arrangements which allow them to make sets of  

> readings available to students at little or no cost, but there doesn't  

> seem to be any appropriate arrangement for software.

> 

> Have you encountered this problem? How have you addressed it?

> 

> I know that a lot of good cutting-edge independent work is available  

> cheaply or for free online, but I don't want to be forced to exclude  

> AAA titles from examination. Ideally I would like to set up a library  

> of games but I am worried about the copyright  and licensing issues.  

> Does anyone know more about this?

> 

> Malcolm

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José P. Zagal
Assistant Professor
College of Computing and Digital Media
DePaul University

http://facsrv.cs.depaul.edu/~jzagal