Racing Academy is a car racing Game with learnign built in. Forget games for the Playstation and their ilk, this PC games has a complex, highly realistic and customisable physics engine at it's heart and learning in its soul.
You are offered the chance to race against another car (driven by an AI driver) on a drag strip, or unlock the full potential on a skid pan or a circuit race. Users unlock higher level by selecting engines, tyres and gear ratios on the basis of graphs. In the skid pan or circuit race users, ideally in teams, can control the full range of parameters - steering, brakes, suspension etc etc to enhance the performance of the car.
A collaboration across the UK, funded by JISC and including researchers at Bath University and FutureLab, students in Bath, Penwith College (Penzance) and Barnfield College (Luton), has investigated how it can be used in teaching and learning - to develop key ideas in motor vehicles studies, automotive engineering and physics; raising motivation and enjoyment; teamwork facilitated by discussions on a VLE. Students involved have been 16+ students in Further Education, and first/third year undergraduates.
Learn more about the project at http://staff.bath.ac.uk/pssrj/RacingAcademy/index.htm
Download the game and try it for yourself at http://www.lateralvisions.co.uk/racingacademy/index.htm
Some of the outcomes are described at http://www.futurelab.org.uk/resources/documents/project_reports/Racing_Academy_FEHE_research_paper.pdf
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