Organisation
Checkout is a co-production of:
Games Factory Online
Games Factory Online (GFO) produces and publishes educational games for consoles, PC and mobile. Both online and offline.
GFO develops these educational games, a.k.a. Serious Games, together with various educational institutions. This allows us to make optimal use of the teachers’ expertise, so that our games are always ‘loaded’ with the relevant subject matter.
The new trend: Serious Gaming!
Practice proves that games and simulations often lead to quicker and better learning results than traditional tools like books, powerpoint presentations, role plays or classes. Also, gaming is much more fun. For one thing, it helps to motivate both students and teachers! That is why in the years ahead an increasing number of educational institutions, businesses and government agencies will be using Serious Games for educational and commercial purposes. Games Factory Online will be there to support them. During each stage of the process. www.gamesfactoryonline.com
M&ICT
This project is co-funded by M&ICT. www.m-ict.nl
RANJ
RANJ Serious Games is a creative studio specialised in the design and the realisation of serious games. Serious Gaming is a serious business.
RANJ believes in the possibilities of gaming outside its normal domain, being entertainment. It can be a means of communication and learning, an instrument for recruitment and selection and a way of obtaining insight in complex structures. In serious gaming entertainment is not the main objective but rather a means to enrich the experience, to discover in an implicit manner. It is essential to embed these communication goals in the game principles in other words game rules and game goals must match exactly. Only then can the player be totally immersed in the game and at the same time being educated without being conscious of it. Our mission is to master this process, to develop it further, to refine it and to innovate it. Serious Gaming is still in its infant state, but there is a prosperous future waiting ahead. www.ranj.nl
ROC West-Brabant
ROC West-Brabant is a holding of 9 colleges of vocational education and training in the South of the Netherlands. The ROC aims to be a school for high quality education for all people over the age of 16, irrespective of their age, background or social position. The education and training we offer aims to qualify people for the demands of the labour market, thus enhancing their opportunities for a better position in society; to contribute to people's personal development; to prepare people to function better in a multicultural, diverse and complex society.
ROC West-Brabant has about 26.000 students in vocational education, 20.000 in general education and 2500 staff members. www.rocwb.nl
