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New Cyber Worlds Provide Possible Learning Landscapes
Andrew Trotter

They might not show up in the school construction budget, but some pretty odd structures are being built to house students these days. Among them: tomato greenhouses floating in the sky, a 19th-century river town grappling with a mysterious epidemic, and odd meeting places that look like set diagrams from "Star Trek." These are educational spaces of a special sort: multiple-user dimensions, or MUDs—worlds that exist only in cyberspace. And a handful of pioneering educators are using them to tickle the imaginations of teens who have grown up on video games....

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