Education
Maintaining ties to education and art, Spiegel has also continued working closely with post-secondary institutions around the world. For several years, Spiegel collaborated with the Annenberg School at The University of Southern California in a study on the impact of interactivity in learning among children, and installed "Immersion labs” in post-secondary institutions such as Harvard University, University of Toronto, and Sheridan College. He has also penned the foreword for two textbooks on video games, guest-lectured at the University of Queensland, Australia, and has appeared as keynote or guest speaker at numerous international events, including the Australasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment, Trondheim Matchmaking (an annual international festival for electronic arts and new technology), the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney (Australia's largest and most popular museum), SIGGRAPH Toronto, DEAF Netherlands, and the USC Annenberg Workshop on Games for Learning, Development & Change .
In 2006, Stacey Spiegel and Dr. Rodney Hoinkes presented a talk titled “The Evolution of Real and Virtual Communities” at the University of Toronto. In October 2007 Spiegel inspired an international symposium at the University of Western Ontario called "Playing the Gallery: The art of games", which focused on understanding issues between virtual reality and the implications for social change and technology-driven environments for creative expression. In the mid-1990s, Spiegel was an Adjunct Professor at the University of Toronto. He is currently an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Software Engineering and Game Design at McMaster University.
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