FGP4-2: Mooving Cows with Jennifer Van Os

Filament Games Podcast

Welcome back to the Filament Games Podcast! If you read our blog, you may know we are working with our friends at the University of Wisconsin - Madison to create an educational cow-handling game. If you didn’t know, now you do! The project is aptly called Mooving Cows, and it is a game-based learning experience that teaches players how to interact properly with cattle in a risk-free virtual environment. One of our key collaborators is Jennifer Van Os, the project’s director as well as Assistant Professor and Extension Specialist of Animal Welfare at UW Madison. In this episode of the Filament Games podcast, Brandon and Dan ask Jennifer about how the project came to be, her career in animal welfare, and why game-based learning is a particularly useful tool for teaching cow-handling best practices. Oh, and Jennifer may also mention that cows can play video games too.