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Genome Island

ckeller — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:10:58 -0500

Genome Island (http://slurl.com/secondlife/Genome/118/145/53) was created to explore the potential for creating an interactive laboratory environment in the 3D virtual world of Second Life. College and university science courses that include a laboratory typically, because of the constraints of class scheduling, separate the lecture and laboratory components into different time blocks, and one of the challenges of college/university science becomes the meaningful integration of the two experiences. Virtual worlds offer the opportunity to eliminate the lecture/lab boundary by immersing students in an environment to be investigated.

Looking to the Future: Higher Education in the Metaverse

ckeller — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:38:43 -0500

Beyond the capabilities that virtual worlds offer us at the moment, it is the possibilities that we can imagine for the future that may be the most compelling. Virtual worlds technology, like the Internet in general, is changing the way we access and experience information and the way we can access and connect with each other.

Games for Higher Education: 2008

elilly — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 11:44:38 -0500

Learning via computer games: the very idea can seem surreal or outrageous. Yet for the past five years, a movement has been afoot to examine how digital games work as pedagogical devices. Starting with the publication in 2003 of James Paul Gee’s landmark What Video Games Have to Teach Us about Learning and Literacy, faculty, technologists, and librarians have been exploring how we can learn from and also teach within computer games. This column will survey what this movement has discovered.

Learning Objects: A Rose by Any Other Name...

drupal — Wed, 29 Jun 2005 11:46:02 -0500

The author discusses numerous reasons to explain why learning objects have not fulfilled their promise of transforming education as originally anticipated.

Surveying the Digital Landscape: Evolving Technologies 2004

drupal — Fri, 15 Oct 2004 10:40:01 -0500

Six evolving technologies made news in 2004: spam, legal P2Ps, learning objects, content convergence, nomadicty, and regional networks.