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Educators explore 'Second Life' online<SCRIPT language=JavaScript type=text/javascript> POSTED: 5:45 p.m. EST, November 14, 2006The three-dimensional virtual world makes it possible for students taking a distance course to develop a real sense of community, said Rebecca Nesson, who leads a class jointly offered by Harvard Law School and Harvard Extension School in the world of "Second Life."
"Students interact with each other and there's a regular sense of classroom interaction. It feels like a college campus," she said.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/11/13/second.life.university/index.html
Speaking of the lands down under, if you are in the outback, then, yes, I guess I can understand how this supplements the mails, the radio, the telephone of old when kids got their lessons via the ethers. And, yet...
Phoenix campus 'models home'
The leader in online education has purchased a 200-unit townhouse site and is remaking the community into a 'campus' that will let students visit the college in realtime and yet enjoy a virtual homelife. Students will share 1-, 2- and 3-bedroom 'apartments' complete with computers, beds, kitchens, and bathrooms. Then, they will log in to Phoenix servers and work from 'campus' but with an environment that closely models actual homelife. "You will have people interrupting you," said Odessa Neccon, who hosts a 'class' in a nearby building. To come to a 'classes' students actually leave their
'homes' and sit in another room where a person talks to them about the material. "It's even more interactive than a book," Neccon said.
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