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Immersive Interfaces for Engagement and Learning: January 1, 2009

Immersion is the subjective impression that one is participating in a comprehensive, realistic experience. Interactive media now enable various degrees of digital immersion. The more a virtual im…
Second Life Is Dead, Long Live Second Life?: April 7, 2011

Daniel Livingstone ( daniel.livingstone@uws.ac.uk ) lectures on computer game technology and researches the educational applications of virtual worlds at the University of the West of …
Learning through Situated Simulations: Exploring Mobile Augmented Reality: January 18, 2011

This ECAR research bulletin illustrates and reports on a series of experiments with situated simulations that have been tested with students in real environments in Norway, Athens, and Rome over…
Reflections on Play, Pedagogy, and World of Warcraft: September 22, 2010

Key Takeaways The video game World of Warcraft was the text studied, the laboratory, and the classroom for the online course "Warcraft: Culture, Gender, and Identity"…
EDUCAUSE Quarterly Magazine, Volume 33, Number 3, 2010: September 22, 2010

Reflections on Play, Pedagogy, and World of Wa…
Simulation Technologies in Higher Education: Uses, Trends, and Implications: February 9, 2010

This ECAR research bulletin focuses on the rapid growth in the use of simulation technologies in higher education and the implications this will have for information technology planning and poli…
2010 Horizon Report: January 15, 2010

The annual Horizon Report is a collaborative effort between the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) and the New Media Consortium (NMC). Each year, the report identifies and describes six areas of …
Social Isolation and New Technology: November 9, 2009

This report adds new insights to an ongoing debate about the extent of social isolation in America. A widely-reported 2006 study argued that since 1985 Americans have become more socially isolate…
Med School, High Tech: July 23, 2009

New medical schools are launching curriculums with more use of simulation and more social science -- and many established schools are moving in that direction, too. …
Virtual World Learning Spaces: Developing a Second Life Operating Room Simulation: March 26, 2009

Key Takeaways A real-world approach to virtual learning spaces brings similar constraints on the types of teaching and learning possible in the virtual spaces. An alternative appr…

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