Summary of Journal on Online Education’s lastest issue
Education in Virtual Worlds, Second Life | (1)
Kerrie Smith, who writes about online communites in Australia for You Are Never Alone, recently summed up the latest issue of the Journal of Online Education.
Smith is taken with the idea that older technologies need not be discarded or ignored in the face of shiny new technologies. One of the articles compares MOOs (MUD object oriented text-based games) to newer MUVEs (Multiuser Virtual Environments) and how the later-era MVUEs are using the lessons from earlier versions. She quotes from one of the articles in the issue (available here; registration required, but free) that talks about Second Life. The authors, ...