Academics Discuss Mass Migration From Second Life
Anaheim, Calif.—Officials at one discussion session here at the Educause conference yesterday spent an hour debating whether or not they should relocate their campuses—taking all the buildings, quads,...
View ArticleMicrosoft Expands Web-Based Services for Its College E-Mail System
Here’s the latest in the battle over student in boxes: Microsoft announced today that it is expanding what it offers as part of its free e-mail service for colleges. The features it is adding resemble...
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Online, People Learn Best from Virtual ‘Helpers’ That Resemble Them
Courtesy of Lori Foster Thompson Turns out looks and personality still count in online learning. That’s the finding of a study on how people’s perception and performance in online training is affected...
View ArticleQuickwire: New Low? Video Game Lets Users Mimic School Shooters
In the new video game School Shooter: North American Tour 2012, players are encouraged to kill unarmed students and teachers using the same weapons used in several actual school shootings, including...
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U.S. Air Force Academy Recruits Cadets With a Dose of Virtual Reality
Prospective students can take an animated 3-D tour of the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado as avatars that run, jump, and salute in a virtual online world. A new virtual campus built by the U.S. Air...
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Interactive Map Traces Slaves’ Path to Emancipation
Image from Visualizing Emancipation Edward L. Ayers, a historian and president of the University of Richmond, calls the emancipation of slaves during the Civil War “the least-understood social...
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Department of Energy Creates Online-Learning Platform for Technical Training
Image from NTER Learning Washington—The U.S. Department of Energy today unveiled a new open-source online-learning platform designed to facilitate technical training. The platform, called the National...
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Professor Says He Was Assaulted Over Wearable Computer Glasses
A Canadian professor says he was attacked at a McDonald’s restaurant in Paris for taking pictures with his “digital eyeglasses.” Steve Mann, who is in the department of electrical and computer...
View ArticleWeb-Hosting Project Hopes to Help Students Reclaim Digital Destinies
Jim Groom and Tim Owens believe that college students are not being adequately prepared to be good “digital citizens” of the 21st century. Partly to blame, they say, is the prebuilt and prepackaged...
View ArticleBritish University to Accept Bitcoin as Payment for Some Courses
The University of Cumbria, a seven-year-old institution in Britain, said on Tuesday it would accept Bitcoin as payment for some courses, the latest in a growing list of companies and organizations...
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