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Notes on Contributors • xi University as well as being the Director of Emerging Technologies in Kelley’s executive education. Dave White manages the Technology Assisted Lifelong Learning unit at the University of Oxford. He has worked on many projects funded by the Joint Information’s Systems Committee (JISC) assessing how individuals and groups engage with new forms of technology. This led to the development of the ‘Visitors and Residents’ typology of online engagement (White and Le Cornu, 2011). He was Principal Investigator for the Open Habitat project which explored small groups’ use of online virtual worlds such as Second Life . The project generated the theory of ‘Eventedness’ (White and Le Cornu, 2010), which details the compelling nature of presence in immersive online environments and how this relates to notions of belonging. He has also undertaken research into the World of Warcraft massively multiplayer online game with a particular focus on how the game’s social architecture draws individuals into ever more demanding roles, ultimately encouraging the formation of communities and a ‘professional’ attitude towards the game. Peter Whitton has worked in UK Higher Education since 2001. Over this period he has had various roles supporting the use of technology for teaching and learning including time spent in design and development, project management, and academic development. Before working in HE, Peter spent 12 years as a commercial designer working for clients in the retail and financial services sectors. Peter’s research interests include the use of multimedia for teaching, collaborative learning, and the potential of game spaces as learning environments. He is currently a Learning Technology Adviser at the University of Salford.
Notes on Guest Expert Contributors Naomi Alderman is the author of three novels: Disobedience, The Lessons , and Doctor Who: Borrowed Time . She has won the Orange Award for New Writers and the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year prize. She’s also a games writer, was lead writer on puzzle alternate reality game Perplex City and has recently completed a language teaching game for the BBC. She writes regularly on games for the Guardian . Richard A. Bartle is Professor of Computer Game Design at the University of Essex. He is best known for having co-written in 1978 the first virtual world, MUD , and for his 1996 Player Types model which has seen widespread adoption by the MMO industry. His 2003 book Designing Virtual Worlds is the standard text on the subject, and he is an influential writer on all aspects of online design and development. In 2010, he was the first recipient of the prestigious Game Developers Online Choice Award of Online Game Legend. Jacob Habgood is now a Senior Lecturer in Game Development at Sheffield Hallam University. His games industry career spanned 14 years and includes a dozen published titles for all the major console gaming platforms. He studied his PhD in game-based learning at the University of Nottingham and was awarded his doctorate in 2007. His research interests focus on harnessing the motivational power of games for learning, as well as the affective motivational components of digital games themselves. He is the author of a popular series of books on hobbyist game development, beginning with The Game Maker’s Apprentice . Adrian Hon is co-founder and CEO at Six to Start, specializing in creating new forms of storytelling through ARGs, transmedia, or mobile and web-based games. Clients have included Disney, the BBC, Channel 4, and Penguin, and Six to Start has won multiple awards including Best of Show at SXSW. He also writes about technology for the Daily Telegraph , is writing a Kickstarter-funded book and blog called A History of the Future in 100 Objects , co-organizes the Hive Mind Challenge, and is the founder of Transmedia London. He studied Natural Sciences at Cambridge, specializing in experimental psychology and neuroscience. Eric Klopfer is Associate Professor and the Director of the MIT Scheller Teacher Education Program ( http://education.mit.edu ) and the Director of The
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