Revised 2 January 2009
There is plenty of interest, some of it with a UK focus, in this 2 January 2009 Special Issue of The American Association for the Advancement of Science's Science Magazine, though you will need to be a subscriber (or work for an organisation with a subscription) to view most of it other than at USD10 per article. There is a freely available video piece focusing in part on video games in science learning, and a podcast to promote the special issue, and I can see the issue having quite an impact in the US, given Science Magazine's reach and influence amongst policy-makers, the relatively poor performance of the US school system, and the political changes that are afoot there. See for example this coverage of the Science article about video games picked up by the Scientific American. From a UK perspective, Scotland's "Glow" national education intranet gets supportive and no doubt welcome coverage in a two page article by Dan Clery, and there is a longer review article about online education worldwide - abstract - by Frank Mayadas, John Bourne, and Paul Bacsich.
As an aside I think that Science Magazine is missing a trick from both a business and influence point of view by not making this issue freely (or far more cheaply) available on-line.
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