UPCOMING - January 2025
University of Miami to present a 2 hour workshop hosted by Lindsay Grace. Authors: Peter Jamieson - Miami UniversityTitle: Let's Play: Faculty Teaching Development through Board Games. [Presentation Slides in pdf format];
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November 2024
Lilly Conference at Miami University in Oxford, OH to present a full day workshop SCHEDULE. Authors: Karen Davis Rapos - Miami University, Peter Jamieson - Miami University, Eric Rapos - Ontario Tech. Title: Let's Play: Faculty Teaching Development through Board Games. [Presentation Slides in pdf format];
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October 2024
Pre-conference workshop at Frontiers in Education 2024 Facilitators: Karen Davis Rapos - Miami University, Peter Jamieson - Miami University - Miami University. Title: Let's Play: Improving our Teaching in the Medium
of Board Games - Workshop
[Presentation Slides in pdf format];
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October 2024
Meaningful Play in Pittsburgh, PA to present a workshop. Facilitator: Peter Jamieson - Miami University Title: Let's Play: Improving our Teaching in the Medium of Board Games. [Presentation Slides in pdf format];
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August 2024 Serious Play (Toronto, ON, Canada) - Title: Let's Play - Better Teaching with Board Games Presenters: Peter Jamieson - Miami University and Eric Rapos - Ontario Tech University. Abstract: The "Let's Play" initiative started in 2022 and has resulted in us having a deeper understanding of how board games can be used as role-reversal shortened experiences that help teachers learn and experience different ideas as it relates to better teaching. We have implemented workshops on these ideas at various levels, and we continue to push the ideas on how board games provide a great medium to learn how to improve our teaching skills. Our goal is to expose educators and leaders to the benefit of using board games to experientially observe and improve our teaching. For this workshop (link), we provide approximately 16 participants (the maximum optimal number being 32) the opportunity to play and experience how improving teaching and games intersect. Our workshop provides attendees the opportunity to play 3 games in an evolving manner that focuses on the following teaching ideas: technical vocabulary, scaffolding, and the culture of the classroom.
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May 2024 Miami CEC Alumni Conference (Oxford, OH) - Title: Let's Play - Experiencing with Games to Improve Teaching and Learning Presenters: Karen Davis Rapos - Miami University, Peter Jamieson - Miami University Abstract: In this active workshop, Peter and Karen will demonstrate to attendees how board games can be used to help us improve our teaching and learning. The ideas will be beneficial to students, professors, and professionals, and not to worry, it might be fun too! For those who joined last year, the games will be different.
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February 2024
KEEN National Conference in Austin, TX to present a 2 hour workshop SCHEDULE. Authors: Peter Jamieson - Miami University and Eric Rapos - Miami University. Title: Let's Play: Faculty Teaching Development through Board Games. The KEEN card (must have an account) for this workshop is: Card 3857. Here are the presentation slides: [Presentation Slides in pdf format]
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November 2023
Lilly Conference at Miami University in Oxford, OH to present a full day workshop SCHEDULE. Authors: Peter Jamieson - Miami University, Eric Rapos - Miami University. Title: Let's Play: Faculty Teaching Development through Board Games. [Presentation Slides in pdf format]; A Participant's Post Jennifer Coy (Chair for Computer Science at Ball State) on LinkedIn;
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June 2023 ASEE 2023 Annual Conference in Baltimore, MD to present our paper. Authors: Peter Jamieson - Miami University, Eric Rapos - Miami University, and Nathaniel Bryan - Miami University. Title: WIP - Let's Play - Improving our Teaching by Reversing Roles and Being a Learner with Board Games. [Paper in pdf format][Presentation Slides in pdf format]
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June 2023 GDEX 2023 in Columbus, OH to present a 2-hour workshop Facilitators/Speakers: Peter Jamieson - Miami University, Eric Rapos - Miami University Title:Let's Play - Using Board Games as small practical activities to improve teachers and teaching skillsPresentation Link
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May 2023 Miami CEC Alumni Conference (Oxford, OH) - Title: How Board Games Can Help you and Miami Be Better at Teaching and Learning Presenters: Eric Rapos - Miami University, Peter Jamieson - Miami University Abstract: The reality is we all spend significant time in our careers teaching others about our ideas, skills, and understanding of various complex systems. In this talk, we will motivate the benefits of board games in education, but instead of discussing how to apply games in the classroom, we will demonstrate how playing and teaching games can help you become a better teacher and learner. In particular, we will focus on providing two experiential gaming activities that illustrate how games can be used to internalize and improve your understanding of both teaching and learning. This will be beneficial to students, professors, and professionals, and not to worry, it might be fun too!
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October 2022 Facilitated a panel at Meaningful Play 2022 in East Lansing, Michigan at Michigan State University on The Use of Board Games for Faculty Development to Improve Teaching. Panel: Eric Rapos - Miami University, Peter Jamieson - Miami University, Casey O'Donnell - Michigan State University, VIRTUALLY: Paul Darvasi - CEO & Founder Gold Bug Interactive, University of Toronto, and VIRTUALLY: Camilla Zamboni - Wesleyan University
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