Alex Chisholm

Biography

Alex Chisholm is executive director and a founding member of the Learning Games Network, a non-profit organization that champions the use of games in education and supports the design, development, and production efforts of both non-profit and commercial partners. As a media research and development consultant who creates transmedia entertainment and educational properties, he currently serves as executive producer of both Generation Cures, a “game for good” initiative at Children’s Hospital Boston, and Interactive Social Language Education (ISLE), an international language-learning platform made possible by support from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. Alex also serves as the software and video gaming judge for the National Parenting Publication Awards (NAPPA). In recent years, he has developed and managed projects with NBC Universal, including iCue with NBC News, and the online games for NBC Olympics. Over the past 10 years, Chisholm has also collaborated on research, product, and program development with Microsoft, Electronic Arts, Sony Pictures Imageworks, and LeapFrog. Alex holds a BS from Cornell University.

Sessions

• The Interactive Social Language Education (ISLE) Platform
  Wednesday, June 10

  3:30–4:30

  Old Madison (3rd floor, East/Southeast)
• Science Education-Fundraising Project
  Wednesday, June 10

  3:30–4:30

  Old Madison (3rd floor, East/Southeast)