{"href":"http://player.captivate.fm/services/oembed?url=http%3A%2F%2Fplayer.captivate.fm%2Fepisode%2F45200467-ee5f-4ea0-a449-34ed45d500e6","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Captivate.FM","provider_url":"https://www.captivate.fm","width":600,"height":200,"type":"rich","html":"<iframe style=\"width: 100%; height: 200px;\" title=\"Episode 1: Playful Pedagogical Primers\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allow=\"clipboard-write\" seamless src=\"http://player.captivate.fm/episode/45200467-ee5f-4ea0-a449-34ed45d500e6\"></iframe>","title":"Episode 1: Playful Pedagogical Primers","description":"<p>For the first episode of Ludiphilia I&#39;ve gathered two stories about learning by playing systems-driven games. One is about the educational value of Minecraft, and the other is about a guy who studies something he calls play design and who developed two of my favourite bits of playful software in recent memory.</p>\n\n<p>First I talk to Santeri Koivisto, the CEO and co-founder of <a href=\"http://teachergaming.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">TeacherGaming</a> \u2014 the small company behind (educational repackaging&#39;s of Minecraft and Kerbal Space Program) MinecraftEdu and KerbalEdu \u2014 about the company&#39;s goals, approach to education, background, and more.</p>\n\n<p>Then I move onto Chaim Gingold, a PhD student at the University of California Santa Cruz and researcher at the <a href=\"http://www.cdglabs.org/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Communications Design Group</a>. He&#39;s writing his thesis on play design. But he&#39;s famous for developing the Creature Creator for Maxis&#39; SimEverything game Spore, and more recently he made an iPad app called <a href=\"http://earthprimer.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">Earth Primer</a> \u2014 a science book for playful people. You can buy Earth Primer <a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/earth-primer/id956678532?&at=1000lGtI\" rel=\"nofollow\">from the App Store</a> for AU$12.99/US$9.99/GB\u00a37.99.</p><p><a href=\"http://patreon.com/ludiphilia\" rel=\"payment\">Support Ludiphilia</a></p>\n","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/a86d9532-efb7-43e4-9e63-d427ff780607/2494328-1571271847533-c28ece99d33ce.jpg"}