Statement of Purpose
LEARNU is a laboratory for exploring the advancement of computer and information sciences and education using modern entertainment computing platforms.
LEARNU has three current mandates...
To pursue the study of possible educational benefits of extended and repetitive exposure to games that have been designed for the instillment of theoretical or applied concepts.
To pursue the use of entertainment consoles as front end clients to more advanced computing architectures. Entertainment consoles are computers with very stylized interfaces designed for highly accessible and responsive inputs with a rich set of multimedia outputs. The mandate is to explore the usefulness of leveraging these specialized interfaces for 'experiencing' information generated from advanced architecture servers.
To use entertainment console development environments as a foundation to teach the concepts behind good software design, multimedia software development strategies and the use of design patterns.
