The C2Learn consortium, and in particular UoM, are very happy to announce that the C2Learn-funded paper "Towards a Generic Method of Evaluating Game Levels" co-authored by A. Liapis, G. N. Yannakakis, and J. Togelius has just won the Best Student Paper Award at the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment 2013! The paper presents heuristics which can be used to evaluate and guide the generation of more than one types of game levels, and can potentially be used for evaluating a larger set of computer-designed artifacts.
Teacher colleagues across Europe, be alert!
Erasmus+, the brand-new EU programme for Education, Training, Youth, and Sport (2014-2020) has a special focus on teachers’ professional development! Up to last year, the Comenius Training grants offered some good opportunities for individual teachers to attend training courses, such as our 2013 summer school in Crete. From now on, Erasmus+, which has just replaced the old Lifelong Learning Programme (LLP), really multiplies these opportunities. Never before has there been so much EU support for teachers' professional development through mobility in...