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Education Symposium
Scottish Games Week 2022
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On Tuesday 25th of October, the inaugural Education Symposium takes place at CodeBase in Edinburgh.
The symposium will bring together educators, stakeholders and students from across the games-related education and academic landscape in Scotland for the first time. The goal is simple: we want to make Scotland the best place in the world to learn about games – designing, developing, publishing, running, applying – and more.
This will be a unique event, which will focus on understanding the key challenges facing the games-related courses in colleges and universities across Scotland. We would like you to be part of it.
Our aims for the session include:
- improving and strengthening the pathways and talent pipeline into games creation, publishing and beyond
- grow and maintain the network of games educators in Scotland
- consider future events for the education sector
- consider the key successes and challenges facing the games sector in Scotland
- identify gaps, opportunities for collaboration, and next steps to create actionable outcomes
We are building a day of practical, hands-on sessions, which will enable every participant to contribute, to give their perspective on the educational landscape and ensure we can bring your experience and expertise to bear.
Programme
*subject to change*
Opening
9:30 – 10:00 – Check in & Coffee
10:00 – 10:10 Opening – Brian Baglow, Founder, Scottish Games Week
10:15 – 10:30 – Welcome, housekeeping & hellos – Julie Drybrough & Claire-Marie Boggiano
Perspective
10:30 – Opening/ Worldwide Perspective
10:50 – Cabadaich*
- Industry (TBC)
- University (William Huber)
- College ( Amanda Ford)
- School (Emma Liston)
- Tech Ecosystem (Brian Baglow)
*Cabadaich is the Scots Gaelic word for chat/ an informal conversation.
These are short, pecha-kucha inspired presentations – 20 slides, 20 second each – designed to give context for the day.
11:30 Coffee Break
11:45 – 12:30 – Sensemaking & Capture
(groups – what are you hearing? What surprises you? What themes need more discussion? )
12:30 - 1:30 Lunch
1:30 – welcome back – Brian Baglow
1:40 – 2:40 – Open Space conversations*
1 hour. 4 hosted conversations running concurrently. Hosts will be briefed, prior to 25th October
Participants are invited to move between conversations. Emphasis on following areas:
- Identify stories of great practice.
- Identify missed opportunities and gaps.
- Identify opportunities to collaborate
- Future skills/ Improving pipeline
- Design & Production – Host TBC
- Art, Animation, Writing, Music – Host TBC
- Programming/ Engineering & Game Tech – Host
- Capstone/ GameJams – Host : Dr Amanda Ford
- Future Skills/Speculative Game Ed – Host Brian Baglow
2:40 – 3:15 – Feedback from the Hosts
*Our hope is the data & Ideas from the Open Space can be gathered for a White Paper identifying what is working well & What needs to be done differently across the ecosystem in Scotland to support the talent pipeline
3:15 - 3:30 - Coffee
3:30 -4:15 – Panel/Fishbowl/ Discussion & Audience Q&A
4:15 – 4:45 – Next Steps, Commitment Wall & Close
5pm onward - Social - Drink. Chat. Be Merry
Get Social
Created and organised by the Scottish Games Network, with support from the Scottish Government’s Tech Ecosystem Review (STER) fund.