Learn a new language. Enter a new world.

Xenos is the premiere language learning web portal, where users enter a virtual learning space to learn English as a foreign or second language.

Bring the world closer together through media that supports learn.

MISSION:

In

Games and activities are the lifeblood of the Xenos

experience, played collaboratively in the target

language to facilitate real-time, authentic contexts to support

Spanish-speaking ESL high school and early college

learners in the United States.

is built on

Integrated Social Learning Environment

is the first free and completely open platform for games, activities, and social experiences designed to support learning. The platform provides instructionally rigorous and pedagogically innovative learning games and activities that are free to all. The ISLE platform enables one-to-one and one-to-many communications around games and activities within a virtual learning space where opportunities exist for students, teachers, and mentors alike to cast themselves in roles for the teaching and learning.

Improvement of at-risk learner test scores,

the shift in student motivation to learn English,

and the change in teacher motivation to modify their strategies for instruction with support from games.

Important findings:

Our project goals emerge from a theory of change that puts games at the center of a playful learning experience designed to change how people approach and experience languages while encouraging and enabling a wider community of creative learning game developers to produce new applications, with our open ISLE tools and APIs, reducing development costs and the challenges of reaching an aggregated audience.

Theory of change:

Xenos recently entered beta and is continuing development in order to engage and confirm mid-sized to larger development and distribution partners in the language learning area.

Our goal is to simplify the tools we provide for a larger group of game producers, emulating what we’ve seen with Apple and Droid application development. We also aim to refine ISLE assessment and reporting tools, making it easier for developers to integrate games with the platform while providing more meaningful performance metrics to teachers and learners.

Project status:

www.learninggamesnetwork.org

101 Rogers Street, Suite 205Cambridge, MA 02142USA

617.494.4946info@learninggamesnetwork.org@LGamesNetwork

www.xenos-isle.com