Experiments with public planning and architecture classes are now being conducted in Second Life, the popular online 3-D virtual world. Landing Lights Park A recent article in the online journal Archinect, Architecture's Second Life http://archinect.com/features/article.php?id=47037_0_23_0_M describes the attempt to involve...
Advanced Teaching Technologies: Brave New World, a recent Campus Technology article, explains how 3D systems and next-generation teaching technologies are currently being used by students not yet in college. MUVEs are Multi-User Virtual Environments and online, 3-D, immersive virtual worlds,...
If you are unfamiliar with the three words in the title for this entry, you are not alone... I have spent the summer learning new words and a new vocabulary to keep up with the new Digital Natives, Net Generation Learners or New Millennial Students (take your pick) coming to our campuses. Born after 1980 and having grown up using the Internet and computers, these students are arriving on campus using cellphones more than laptops, instant messaging each other instead of emailing and listening to podcasts of classroom lectures on their iPods.
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