Speaker Scot Osterweil

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Scot Osterweil

Creative Consultant, The Education Arcade & Research Scientist

MIT Comparative Media Studies

Scot Osterweil is Creative Director of the Education Arcade and the Game Lab in the MIT Comparative Media Studies Program. He has designed award-winning games in both academic and commercial environments, focusing on what is authentically playful in challenging academic subjects. Designs include the acclaimed Zoombinis series (math and logic), Vanished: The MIT/Smithsonian Curated Game (environmental science), Labyrinth (math), Kids Survey Network (data and statistics), Caduceus (medicine), and iCue (history). He is a founder and President of Learning Games Network (www.learninggamesnetwork.org) where he leads the Gates Foundation’s Xenos Language Learning Initiative (ESL), and where he designed Quandary, named Game of the Year at the 2013 Games 4 Change festival.

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