The fine folks over at Serious Games Market were kind enough to feature Q Racer in a blog post called “iPad and iPhone helping to create a Learning Ecosystem.”  If you aren’t familiar with the term “serious game” it’s defined  according to wikipedia as:

A game designed for a primary purpose other than pure entertainment. The “serious” adjective is generally prepended to refer to products used by industries like defense, education, scientific exploration, health care, emergency management, city planning, engineering, religion, and politics.

The Serious Games Market blog highlights and promotes different serious games currently on the market and those in development.  They believe that Q Racer and other serious games being developed on the iPad, iPod touch, and the iPhone will help speed up the use of these platforms as legitimate learning frameworks in education systems.  Specifically:

Regardless who the software creator is, there is now enough hard evidence to declare that the increasing adoption of iPads and iPhones to create a Learning Ecosystem has also the potential to accelerate the adoption of Serious Games into Educational Frameworks.

We definitely hope more institutions end up integrating these platforms (and ultimately the software that will come along with it) into their educational frameworks.  With increased interest and use means the quality of the serious/educational games will get better.