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Some of My Students Are Not Human! Avatar Interaction and Collaboration in Virtual Worlds: January 19, 2010 | A session at the ELI Annual Meeting 2010
Avatars are used in virtual worlds to increase a user's sense of social presence. Into the virtual space we carry our sense of identity and race and tend to act out our real-life prejudices in…
Assessing the Student Experience in Second Life: October 29, 2008 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2008 Annual Conference
For several years, educational innovators have experimented with using virtual worlds such as Second Life to enhance student learning. Though many of these implementations seem successful, few have…
B-Schools in Second Life: It’s more than just Fun and Games; It’s the Confluence of Playing, Learning, and Working: October 6, 2008

"A few months back, at the beginning of the semester, National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA) made an award to Babson College and the Sloan Consortium to develop a virt…
MiRTLE: September 15, 2008

© 2008 Michael Gardner, John Scott, and Bernard Horan EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 43, no. 5 (September/October 2008) MiRTLE Michael Gardner, John Scott, and Bernard Horan Michael Gar…
Supporting Student Teaching Through Virtual Classrooms: January 1, 2007

Viewpoint Supporting Student Teaching Through Virtual Classrooms In the face of increasing difficulty placing teacher candidates in schools for their practicum, using a cyber practicum offe…

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