Richard Van Eck

Richard Van Eck is the founding Dr. David and Lola Rognlie Monson Endowed Chair in Medical Education, and Associate Dean for Teaching and Learning at the University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences. He has a BA in English and Psychology, an MA in English, and a PhD in instructional design. He has been studying games since his doctoral studies at the University of South Alabama, where he worked on Adventures in Problem Solving (Texas interactive Media Award, 1999), and Ribbit’s Big Splash (Gulf Guardian Award 2002). His recent work includes serving as an evaluation and game design consultant on several other games, including PlatinuMath (mathematics for preservice teacher education), Project NEO (science for preservice teachers), Project Blackfeather (programming for middle school students), Contemporary Studies of the Zombie Apocalypse (mathematics for middle school students) and as CoPI for Project RAHI (radon education for middle school). He is a frequent keynote speaker and author on serious games research and development, with two edited books, eight book chapters, thirteen refereed publications, six invited publications, and 75+ presentations, including TEDx Manitoba and SXSW. He also publishes and presents on intelligent tutoring systems, pedagogical agents, authoring tools, and gender and technology.