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		<title>Promoted</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:59:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pablo Moreno-Ger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After completing a 4-month process in mid-october and nearly another  month of paperwork, my promotion to Associate Professor is now complete. More specifically, I am now a &#8220;Profesor Contratado Doctor&#8221; and it is a tenured, non-civil servant position, with teaching and research duties.
Obviously, this promotion means a lot for me. After many years in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Back from Mexico</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:30:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pablo Moreno-Ger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I said a few days ago, I have now returned from the 10º Congreso Internacional y 13º Nacional de Material Didáctico Innovador (International Conference on Innovative Educational Materials). My presentation was well-received by most of the audience, and I later got very valuable feedback from researchers in different fields.
The conference once started as a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A visit to Mexico</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:22:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pablo Moreno-Ger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been invited by the organizers of the 10º Congreso Internacional y 13º Nacional de Material Didáctico Innovador (International Conference on Innovative Educational Materials) to visit Mexico City next week.
There I will deliver a lecture about game-based learning. I am expecting a mixed audience on the topic of GBL: Supporters, detractors and just oblivious. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&lt;e-Adventure&gt; update</title>
		<link>http://www.moreno-ger.com/2009/08/e-adventure-update.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 22:49:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pablo Moreno-Ger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are finishing some stuff related to our new and shiny v1.0 of the &#60;e-Adventure&#62; platform including a brand new website with community forums, sample games, video tutorials and much more. However, we are so proud of it that we couldn&#8217;t resist publishing it so that we could hear your opinions, even if the big [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The &lt;e-Adventure&gt; family</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 22:03:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pablo Moreno-Ger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been ages since I last posted something. Time constraints this year are being worse than ever and I hardly find the time to write (interesting) things. Just to remind everyone (including me) that I still maintain this blog, I wanted to give a brief overview of the current state of the &#60;e-Adventure&#62; family of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Brain Training (NDS) a failure?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 19:03:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pablo Moreno-Ger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am currently involved in a development project where we are trying to mimic the scheme of Brain Training for the Nintendo DS (released as DS Training in Japan and Brain Age in the US), with exercises focused on the different subjects from Computer Science studies.
It was thus very interesting to read this article about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&lt;e-Adventure&gt; 0.9 released</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 12:20:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pablo Moreno-Ger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I forgot to mention that last month we released a new version of the &#60;e-Adventure&#62; platform. This is, honestly, our biggest release yet. In a previous post I spoke about the mid-term plans for the platform, with releases 0.8, 0.9 and 1.0 (or 0.10?) in the near future.
Well, 0.9 is available and it is mostly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Educational games and Cultural Heritage</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 22:18:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pablo Moreno-Ger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[About two years, while I stayed in Maastricht working at the OUNL ago we started collaborating with Drs. Marc Spaniol and Ralf Klamma from RWTH Aachen. They were doing projects related to interactive storytelling and we were half-way through the first implementation of &#60;e-Adventure&#62;. Since then, our main line of collaboration was the integration of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Our research in the media</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2009 09:57:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pablo Moreno-Ger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[2009 has started strongly for us, at least in terms of mediatic impact. We started the year with a radio interview with our colleagues from UNED, which was aired on national radio very early in the morning of January 7th 2009. We spoke about the benefits of games in education and outlined our main ideas [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Playing in class: Two game experiences in university teaching</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2009 18:31:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pablo Moreno-Ger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When the semester started I reflected on how I could introduce games into my regular university courses. Now that the semester is almost over, it is a good time to look back and check on my progress.
Laboratorio de Programación de Sistemas (LPS)
LPS is a 3rd year laboratory on programming. The students are implementing in Java [...]]]></description>
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