Online Learning Update Ray Schroeder, editor, OTEL - University of Illinois at Springfield

Bobby Approved (v 3.2)
Monday, July 02, 2001

http://www.distance-educator.com/dn2.phtml?id=4461

Learning in 3-D
Three-dimensional virtual classrooms recapture the sense of belonging often missing from distance learning.


By Steve Alexander

Online learning is beginning to look a bit like a computer game, thanks to an interactive technology called the 3-D virtual classroom. Rather than walk into a brick-and-mortar classroom, students take their training in realistic-looking "facilities" they see on their computer screens. They can move about, or at least look around, by "turning" to see in different directions....

 



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