WHY USING GAMES FOR LEARNING?

Let’s ask ourselves some questions:

Why are games organising learning better than schools? And if it’s true that learning itself is a reward by nature for humans and a sufficient reward to keep us on a life long learning track, how did we manage to make learning unpleasant enough to transfer it from the fun and pleasure area of our emotional cognition to the area of work and hardship? And finally, Is the answer to learn from games how to learn efficiently?

Since April 2008, seven research organisations from around Europe conjoined for a thirty-month lasting European research project called 80DAYS - Around an inspiring virtual learning world in eighty days” and co-funded under The Seventh European  Framework Programme for research and technological development (FP7) http://cordis.europa.eu/en/home.html to gain answers to those questions.