Good Article on IMD and Flash Games
On the TelCop website
I found this really great mention of how the Interactive Media Division is creating quite a collection of unique Flash games. From the article:
"Often, the use of flash games for educational purposes is considered to be little more than another way of providing generic activities such as multiple choice questions, drag and drops, etc. But the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts’s Interactive Media Division is a prime example of how online games can be used to educate and innovate. According to the Electronic Arts - sponsored Game Innovation Lab at USC: “The goal of the lab is to nurture concepts that push games beyond their currently defined genres, markets and play patterns and to make breakthroughs in these areas that will be valuable to lab sponsors and the industry on the whole”"