Marc Prensky is an internationally acclaimed speaker, writer, consultant, futurist, visionary, designer, and inventor in the critical areas of education and learning. He is the founder of Games2train, an e-learning company whose clients include IBM, Bank of America, Nortel, and Nokia. He is also the author of the critically acclaimed Digital Game-Based Learning (McGraw-Hill, 2001). Prensky has created more than 100 software games, including the world's first fast-action videogame-based training tools. His latest projects are a worldwide, multiplayer, multiteam online competition for bankers and a multiplayer situational awareness game for the military.

Prensky has been featured in articles in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal; has appeared on the television networks CNN, MSNBC, and PBS; and was named one of Training magazine's top 10 visionaries in 2000. He holds a BA from Oberlin College, an MA from Middlebury College, an MA in teaching from Yale University, and an MBA from Harvard University. Many of Prensky's publications can be found online at www.marcprensky.com/writing/default.asp brick busterhidden objects gamesplatform gamesmatch 3 gamesdownloadable gamesword gamesmarble popper gamesaction gameskids gamessimulation games