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T.H.E. Journal
February 2008
Matt Villano |
When Worlds Collide: An Augmented Reality Check Researchers are ramping up traditional MUVEs, developing games that require students to uncover solutions in spaces where the real mingles with the virtual.   |
National Defense
February 2012
Eric Beidel |
Avatars Invade Military Training Systems The influence of video games on military training has been substantial, and the military's interest in avatars -- for soldiers and other actors in simulations -- is growing. |
Scientific American
July 2009
Michael Tennesen |
Avatar Acts: Why Online Realities Need Regulation Conflicts on environments like Second Life can open up new legal questions |
The Motley Fool
January 12, 2007
Jack Uldrich |
Prepare for the Virtualetes Wii-like gaming consoles and virtual reality technologies are only going to improve with time. Virtual-reality video gaming will be a huge business. |
T.H.E. Journal
September 2004
Chris Dede |
Enabling Distributed Learning Communities Via Emerging Technologies - Part One Emerging devices, tools, media and virtual environments offer opportunities for creating new types of learning communities for students and teachers. |
InternetNews
January 12, 2007
Roy Mark |
Politics, Virtually Democrats' groundbreaking appearance in Second Life opens the door for what might be the Internet's next political battleground. |
T.H.E. Journal
September 2006
Mikael Blaisdell |
Educational Gaming: All the Right MUVEs The use of computer simulations, or multi-user virtual environments (MUVEs), that appeal to students' love of video games has shown compelling educational benefits. |
T.H.E. Journal
November 2004
Patricia Deubel |
Guidelines for Selecting Quality K-12 Online Courses The guidelines presented in this article will prove helpful for key stakeholders involved with or considering K-12 online learning. |
BusinessWeek
May 1, 2006 |
My Virtual Life A journey into a place in cyberspace where thousands of people have imaginary lives. Some even make a good living. Big advertisers are taking notice. |
T.H.E. Journal
September 2005
Podoll & Randle |
Building a Virtual High School...click by click South Dakota's Rapid City Academy finds out just what it takes to provide a diverse population of students the flexibility offered by online learning. |
T.H.E. Journal
October 1, 2009
Scott Aronowitz |
Chile Turns to Social Media To Expand English Literacy The federal government of Chile has chosen social media service Mingoville.com to provide the tools the nation's students will need to achieve fluency in English. |
Technology Research News
May 19, 2004
Eric Smalley |
Group dynamics play out in VR Nakanishi, a researcher at Kyoto University in Japan, has built a demo system using FreeWalk software for conducting virtual, or telecommute, evacuation drills. |
T.H.E. Journal
January 2009
John K. Waters |
A 'Second Life' For Educators Lauded as a learning tool, the popular virtual world is now being used by teachers for their own enrichment, providing them with a wealth of opportunities for collaboration, peer interaction, and sharing of resources. |
T.H.E. Journal
January 2005
Barbara Frey |
A Virtual School Principal's To-Do List The following to-do list shows the differences and likenesses in this new realm of virtual education. |
Entrepreneur
January 2007
Karen E. Spaeder |
Personal Touch Avatars let your customers spread the word about you. |
PC Magazine
October 28, 2003
Dan Costa |
Virtual Worlds Tired of the real world? Try a virtual one. These sites can have the graphic richness of massively multiplayer online role-playing games but are focused more on social activities and creativity than on dragon-slaying. |
T.H.E. Journal
October 2007
John K. Waters |
On a Quest for English Online role-playing games, which take players on explorations of medieval fantasy worlds, are showing the potential to be a powerful tool for ESL learning. |
PC Magazine
November 29, 2006
Sebastian Rupley |
NeoNews Katie Couric, look out. Here come the virtual news anchors. |
InternetNews
September 28, 2007
Mike Elgan |
Don't Believe In Google's 'My World' What we know about the "My World" project is made up from what Google might call a "mashup" of sketchy facts, speculation and wishful thinking. Let's have a look. |
T.H.E. Journal
September 2004
William Wade |
Why I Teach Online While distance learning is not for everyone, the flexible education alternative provides teachers and students with many advantages. |
T.H.E. Journal
May 2009
Rama Ramaswami |
Even! But No Longer Odd Once regarded as an unconventional alternative for atypical students, virtual schools have achieved mainstream acceptance, and are now seen as providing an education equal to - if not better than - what their traditional counterpart offers. |
Fast Company
November 2010
Adam L. Penenberg |
How Video Games Are Infiltrating--and Improving--Every Part of Our Lives Games are sneaking into every part of our lives - at home, school, and work. Cisco, IBM, Microsoft, and even the Army depend on games. and Pretty soon, you'll be a part of one. We guarantee it. |
D-Lib
March 2002
Loriene Roy |
Oksale An indigenous approach to creating a virtual library of education resources... |
T.H.E. Journal
October 29, 2009
David Nagel |
Q&A: iNACOL's Susan Patrick on Trends in eLearning At last count, there were more than 1 million enrollments in K-12 online schools in the United States. |
BusinessWeek
November 20, 2006
Steve Hamm |
Palmisano Gets A Second Life IBM is embracing the virtual world of avatars - and other big companies are close behind. |
CIO
November 19, 2010
Stephanie Overby |
Online Collaboration: How Merck Uses Virtual Worlds for Global Meetings Merck Research Laboratories' scientists share their research online using virtual meeting software. |
Wired
February 2007
Mark Wallace |
A Second Life for MTV It used to be the last word in youth culture. Now MTV is more about reality shows than rock stars. Can a virtual world of 3-D avatars help the network get its groove back? |
CRM
October 2010
Koa Beck |
Anybody's Bot Virtual agents, deemed the new concierge of the Internet, help customers navigate through ever-increasing Web site complexities. |
Knowledge@Wharton
September 24, 2003 |
In Norrath, Tattoine and Rubi-ka, Just What Are Your Legal Rights? Even though virtual worlds are nothing more than code residing in banks of computers, what goes on in them poses challenges to our notions about the nature of property, the legal rights of players in virtual worlds and even the presumed boundary between the real and the imagined worlds. |
T.H.E. Journal
July 2006
Christine Fox |
Using Technology to Expand Opportunity: Going Virtual Online courses can get to people and places beyond the reach of the traditional school setting, serving the needs of students and teachers nationwide. |
Entrepreneur
July 2006
Melissa Campanelli |
Buddy Up Talking avatars are a friendly way to connect with site visitors. |
T.H.E. Journal
February 2007
Neal Starkman |
eLearning :: Going the Distance Offering benefits of convenience, independence, and even improved academic performance, virtual schools promise to be here for the long haul. |
T.H.E. Journal
June 2008
Karen Kellison |
Virtual Teamwork For a group of remote, rural school districts, web-based collaborative projects are opening up new vistas of learning opportunities. |
American Journal of Nursing
July 2011
Dowdell et al. |
Original Research: Online Social Networking Patterns Among Adolescents, Young Adults, and Sexual Offenders The use of online social networks like Facebook continues to increase rapidly among all age groups and segments of our society, presenting new opportunities for the exchange of sexual information as well as unsafe encounters. |
Entrepreneur
November 2009
Kara Ohngren |
I'll Have My Avatar Call Your Avatar With Protosphere software, it's possible to have a meeting without actually meeting. |
National Defense
October 2013
Valerie Insinna |
Game Engine May Improve Realism of Tactical Trainer An information technology company is trying to stretch the limits of a popular video-game engine with the goal of making its tactical trainer more lifelike, including improvements in non-player characters' intelligence and more realistic virtual landscapes. |
Insurance & Technology
February 1, 2007
Katherine Burger |
The Buzz About Linden Lab's Second Life Raises Possibilities for Insurance Companies The media buzz about Linden Lab's Second Life online digital world raises commerce and customer possibilities for insurance companies and other financial institutions. |
BusinessWeek
August 13, 2007
Aili McConnon |
Just Ahead: The Web As A Virtual World Imagine being able to have a digital replica of yourself stroll from one site to another. |
T.H.E. Journal
August 2001
Stephen Wulfson |
Edmark's Virtual Labs: Light Every now and then a computer program that is easy to use, content-rich, open-ended, educationally sound and interesting reaches the market -- Virtual Labs: Light is one of these programs. This program introduces students to basic light, lenses and mirrors via on-screen tools... |
T.H.E. Journal
September 2000
Patricia S. Smeaton & Faith H. Waters |
Keeping Connected An Asynchronous Communication System to Support Student Teachers |
CRM
March 1, 2007
Jessica Sebor |
Material Living in a Virtual World Companies are looking to take a piece of Second Life's digital pie because of its explosive membership, but will this move prove virtually insignificant? |
T.H.E. Journal
November 2002
Rushton Hurley |
Fine-Tuning an Online High School to Benefit At-Risk Students In late 2001, San Antonio, Texas, started a virtual school designed to give students a new environment in which to pursue their high school studies. The experience challenged those of us running the program to repeatedly revisit assumptions about learning and administration. |
T.H.E. Journal
June 2001
Keith Oelrich |
Virtual Schools A 21st-century strategy for teacher professional development... |
InternetNews
April 2, 2008 |
Avatars at House Hearing on Virtual World Second Life and censorship discussed on Capitol Hill. |
National Defense
May 2010
Austin Wright |
Airmen to Live Out Their Careers In Cyberspace Air Force officials anticipate a world in which every recruit receives an avatar upon joining the service. |
BusinessWeek
April 2, 2007
Aili McConnon |
The Mind-Bending New World Of Work Motion-capture technology has burst out of Hollywood and into businesses from aerospace to advertising. |
InternetNews
October 12, 2007
Susan Kuchinskas |
Hey IT, Welcome to the Bverse IBM and Linden Labs, creator of Second Life, announced an initiative to create open standards and interoperability allowing people to move their avatars and virtual goods from one world to another. |
Entrepreneur
June 2007 |
Face Time? Managing employees in Second Life. |
IEEE Spectrum
January 2008
David Kushner |
Winner: Make Your Very Own Virtual World with OLIVE Forterra's OLIVE software makes the business of virtual-world environments real. |
Wired
July 24, 2007
Frank Rose |
How Madison Avenue Is Wasting Millions on a Deserted Second Life More and more people are leaving this virtual world, leaving advertisers and big name companies behind. |
