Just wanted to give a shout out to Gamasutra and GSW sister site Game Career Guide, which is edited by the inestimable Beth Dillon, since she just posted 'This Semester in Game Academia', which is a great round-up of the new courses, happenings, and shenanigans in game education over the last few months.

Beth notes in her intro: "The end of Fall semester is met with holidays and an opportunity to reflect on progress made and times ahead. From vocational game education to game studies, Fall 2006 has certainly been eventful, filled with conferences and courses, contests and scholarships, and overall growth of game industry recognition in academia. With such a fluster of activity, it's no wonder Gamasutra Podcast ran a Game Education Roundtable. The discussion included input about the state of game education from DigiPen's Claude Comair, Parsons School of Design's Katie Salen, Dr. Peter Raad from the Guildhall at SMU, USC's Tracy Fullerton, and more."

[Also notable on the site: the Game Career Guide features have, uhh, featured a few neat articles of recent for those who are either students or looking to get into the game industry, including a Student Postmortem for Carnegie Mellon's Beowulf's Barroom Brawl - yoiks!]