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Game Based Learning: Fun, Adventure, Learning By Being in the Movie?

Serious games increase motivation for learners and increase accessibility and pleasurable rewards for students. Current data on personality traits show that young adults have declining values for social connection, focus on detail and cooperation, but highly increasing scores on emotional engagement. To reach today's students, we need to focus on the emotions of the learner first and then introduce content in ways that are immediately rewarding. In this presentation, we should how you can create a cinematic learning experience using AI to deeply engage your learners. We will show our work combing problem based learning, video game design and interactive media production can put learners into a deep narrative over many weeks. 

Our team has been engaged in this field for over ten years with an average of 1600 students on the platform at any time and over $1.5M in funding from the Ontario Government and $250K from E-Campus Ontario. Gamified cinematic learning is on the leading edge of education. 

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Promptly Inclusive: From Headlines to Hallways

Traditional published case studies often suffer from a "relevance lag," frequently failing to reflect the diverse identities and urgent global shifts our students navigate daily. This Project Spotlight session introduces a pedagogical workflow that "Opens Doors" to representation and "Closes Gaps" in engagement by using prompt engineering to transform breaking news into rigorous, inclusive case studies. While legacy case studies can feel static or culturally homogeneous, Generative AI allows instructors to bridge the gap between theory and the "real world" instantly. Learn a structured prompting framework that ensures academic rigour and integrity by incorporating specific pedagogical scaffolding鈥攕uch as Bloom鈥檚 Taxonomy and diverse persona-mapping鈥攄irectly into the AI's output. This method doesn't just generate content; it builds "just-in-time" curricula that are more representative of our student body than many expensive, third-party repositories. The session will cover:

• The Workflow: Converting a news URL into a multi-layered case study with specific learning objectives.
• The Inclusion Prompt: Techniques for intentionally injecting diverse perspectives and accessibility considerations into AI outputs.
• Integrity & Rigour: Strategies for vetting AI-generated scenarios to maintain institutional standards.

As a Project Spotlight, this session prioritizes dialogue. Attendees will see a live demonstration of the "News-to-Case" prompt template and engage in a collaborative discussion on how this technology can democratize high-quality, inclusive course materials. 

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