2010 Keynote Speaker

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Richard Van Eck, University of North Dakota

Richard Van Eck is Associate Professor of the Instructional Design & Technology program at the University of North Dakota (idt.und.edu). He has an M.A. in Creative Writing from the University of North Dakota and a Ph.D. in instructional design and development from the University of South Alabama. He was the Media Arts and Communication director at Cochise College, an assistant professor and member of the Institute for Intelligent Systems at the University of Memphis, and served on the board of directors for the North American Simulation and Gaming Association from 2006–2009. He has published and presented extensively in the field of digital game-based learning and has created six original games for learning. He is currently editing two volumes on interdisciplinary approaches to serious games (due out in 2010) and is working on a new game to teach science as inquiry for middle school students. In addition to his work in serious games, he has also published and presented on intelligent tutoring systems, pedagogical agents, authoring tools, and gender and technology. He currently lives in North Dakota with his wife Sandra, their two dogs and three cats.