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Young, J. (1010) Will Second Life Upgrade Help Virtual Classrooms? Chronicle of Higher Education, February 25 Following Jeffrey Young’s earlier article suggesting some disillusionment of educational users with Second Life, this article reports on the new interface just released by Second Life. I’ve just downloaded it and need a little time to play with [...] I know that if you write a blog, you will get criticism, and it’s been a good week for that, what with the Tapscott and William’s response and the reaction to my posting about virtual worlds. I really do welcome your comments, positive or negative, and usually I am happy to let the comments speak [...] Young, J. (2010) After Frustrations in Second Life, Colleges Look to New Virtual Worlds Chronicle of Higher Education, February 14 This excellent article looks at how educational institutions seem to be moving away from Second Life to create virtual worlds that focus on the specific needs of teaching and learning. Interestingly, Young notes: It turns [...] Young, J. (2010) Wanna Make an App for That? Stanford U. Streams iPhone Development Course Chronicle of Higher Education, January 13 This ‘open’ course from Stanford University (downloadable from iTunes) teaches you how to develop your own apps for the iPhone – and encourages you to market it or give it away. What an opportunity for [...] Parry, M. (2010) Online Scheme Highlights Fears About Distance-Education Fraud The Chronicle of Higher Education, January 14 Every once in a while comes along a story about distance education that I love to read. This is one of them (the comments are also fun to read). The scam that the woman pulled was so elaborate and netted [...] |
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