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This is a second call for papers for the 8th European Conference on Games Based Learning, Hosted by Research and Training Center for Culture and Computer Science (FKI) University of Applied Sciences HTW Berlin, Germany being held on the 9-10 October 2014.

This call will close on 20^th March 2014.

The conference committee welcomes contributions on a wide range of topics using a range of scholarly approaches including theoretical and empirical papers employing qualitative, quantitative and critical methods. Action research, case studies and work-in-progress/posters are welcomed approaches. PhD Research, proposals for roundtable discussions, non-academic contributions and product demonstrations based on the main themes are also invited.

In addition to the main conference topics the advisory group invites submissions to the following mini tracks:

• Game-based Learning in Business chaired by Professor Dr.-Ing. Carsten Busch, University of Applied Sciences HTW Berlin, Germany
• Design of Learning Games chaired by Dr Olga Shabalina, Volgograd State Technical University, Russia
• Game Based Learning in Science Education chaired by Dr Ayelet Weizman, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
• Games Based Learning in Healthcare and Rehabilitation chaired by Associate Professor Dr Anthony L. Brooks, Director SensoramaLab, Aalborg University, Denmark
• Educational Card Game Based Learning chaired by Maria Kordaki PhD., MEdu,  University of the Aegean, Greece.

To submit an abstract and for more information please go to: http://academic-conferences.org/ecgbl/ecgbl2014/ecgbl14-call-papers.htm

Game competition

A competition for the best educational game will be held again at ECGBL 2014. In the first instance we are asking for abstracts describing the game and further information will be sent to applicants thereafter. More information can be found here:

http://academic-conferences.org/pdfs/ECGBL_2014-Call-for-Games.pdf

Publication opportunities

Papers accepted for the conference will be published in the conference proceedings, subject to author registration and payment. Selected papers that have been presented at the conference will also be considered for publication in a special issue of the Electronic Journal of e-Learning and the International Journal of Game-Based Learning.

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