For your information: Open for applications, Professor of Game-based Learning: https://uta.rekrytointi.com/paikat/?o=A_RJ&jgid=1&jid=1086 This is a tenured, full professor position. "Cultural and social progression is leading towards a learning and gamified society. New forms of communication and social interaction form the ways in which people operate and that affect learning needs, requirements and expectations. The field of the professorship studies in particular how learning happens through games and in the processes of playing games. In addition, pedagogic models on how to use games to support learning processes are also being developed. Game based learning can be promoted with different kinds of tools, such as ready-made games, or by personally creating learning situations that may include traditional games and play or that otherwise use gamified operating logic." Enquiries concerning the post Dean Risto Honkonen risto.honkonen(at)uta.fi; tel. +358 50 318 7084 Questions concerning the application procedure: Head of Administration Taina Sylvander taina.sylvander(at)uta.fi; tel. +358 50 433 6261 -- -- Frans Mäyrä @ mobile