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Award-winning

Life on the Edge recently won two prestigious educational awards from the Association for
Educational Communications & Technology
(AECT). The AECT is a professional association of
instructional designers, educators, and professionals leading the global study and application of
new technologies for learning.

The LOTE game received the following awards in two divisions:

Emerging Learning Technologies Division Awards (non-student) award (2024): this award is to
promote the production and utilization of the latest innovative technologies through the creation
of a network of individuals engaged in the design, development, implementation, use, and/or
study of these tools in myriad settings.

Learner Engagement Division Awards (2024): this award recognizes an individual or group who has
furthered the field of learner engagement in new and creative ways. The recipient of this award
serves as an exemplary model for other researchers and educators working in learner
engagement.

Release event

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Media Stories

CTV News | MacEwan University students create video game

Edmonton students have created a video game to help university students celebrating biology.

DarkJedi Plays | First Looks – Life On The Edge

Life on the Edge is an educational tower defense game. You play as a cell struggling to survive waves of bacteria and the COVID-19 virus. Protect your cell and build an understanding of cell biology at the same time!

MacEwan University News Article | Ready, player one

Life on the Edge, a single-player educational video game for biology students, was created by a multi-disciplinary team at MacEwan.

MacEwan University News Article | Faculty members receive federal SSHRC funding

MacEwan scholars to pursue their research on a range of topics – from facilitating homeless youth in retelling their stories to game-based learning in higher education to taking an Afrocentric approach to social work education.