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‘Alice is an innovative 3D programming environment that makes it easy to create an animation for telling a story, playing an interactive game, or a video to share on the web. Alice is a freely available teaching tool designed to be a student’s first exposure to object-oriented programming. It allows students to learn fundamental programming [...]
Defining and Understanding Virtual Worlds, by Karl M. Kapp, Learning Circuits, 2007. ‘Virtual worlds just might be the future of e-learning. It is enough to make a learning professional’s head spin. Every day there is a new story about online worlds providing new learning environments. Articles and books are describing how a generation raised on [...]
Educators explore ‘Second Life’ online. ‘The classroom of the future isn’t on a college campus. It’s in the virtual world of “Second Life”. In “Second Life,” virtual residents - cartoonish-looking characters controlled via keyboard and mouse - create anything their hearts desire. Also known as avatars, the residents start up businesses, stage their own concerts, [...]
Sloodle - 3D Learning Management System. ‘SLoodle (Second Life Object-Oriented Distributed Learning Environment) is a project to integrate the VLE platform Moodle with the 3D world of Second Life. Imagine a Moodle course that, if you wanted, could turn into a proper 3D interactive classroom with all your Moodle resources available to your students in [...]
Real learning in a virtual world. ‘They may be college teachers and students, but they’re also pioneers - exploring strange new worlds that exist nowhere on Earth. That’s because their classes and field trips take place only on computers, using an online digital world called Second Life. Some 60 schools and universities have set up [...]
Online and Virtual Schooling in Europe. ‘The development of interactive online technology has enabled the development of online and virtual schools in Europe, North America and elsewhere. These forms of school education challenge conventional schooling modes characterised by the physical presence of teachers and students in a building using experiential modes of learning. This paper [...]
Are virtual worlds the future of the classroom?. ‘This summer, as many as a million virtual kids could catch an infectious virus known as Whypox, causing them to break out in red welts and spout “Achoo” whenever chatting with friends. Meanwhile, at the beach, crowds of “tweens,” 8- to 12-year-olds, will see their popular hangout [...]
UM Online High School Introduces ‘Virtual Clubs’. ‘Online education isn’t just a solitary pursuit anymore. At the University of Miami Online High School, a new wave of “virtual clubs” is putting the “school” back in “virtual school.” Students now have the opportunity to “virtually” participate in a number of clubs and other extracurricular activities, such [...]
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