Sh
ocking? But we may just have to shut down schools & classrooms with virtual worlds like Why ville mushrooming . Why ville creates an online community of kids with more than 1.7 million registered ‘inhabitants’ from all over the globe that live a normal online life and earn virtual money, chat, socialize with their buddies, explore towns, solve mysteries & even get infected with virtual virus called Why pox! So where’s the learning? Why ville uses a multi user virtual environment (MUVE) that contains a variety of software games that encourage an entertaining learning experience of maths, science & other ‘detestable’ subjects including discipline for children. Such virtual environments are becoming popular, leading to many universities coming up with their own MUVE’s like Harvard’s ‘River City’. With more Internet sites like these, for once mom’s will never again come between a kid & his computer game and complaints about not going to school might become extinct just as the ‘once-upon-a-time’ classrooms!
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ocking? But we may just have to shut down schools & classrooms with virtual worlds like Why ville mushrooming . Why ville creates an online community of kids with more than 1.7 million registered ‘inhabitants’ from all over the globe that live a normal online life and earn virtual money, chat, socialize with their buddies, explore towns, solve mysteries & even get infected with virtual virus called Why pox! So where’s the learning? Why ville uses a multi user virtual environment (MUVE) that contains a variety of software games that encourage an entertaining learning experience of maths, science & other ‘detestable’ subjects including discipline for children. Such virtual environments are becoming popular, leading to many universities coming up with their own MUVE’s like Harvard’s ‘River City’. With more Internet sites like these, for once mom’s will never again come between a kid & his computer game and complaints about not going to school might become extinct just as the ‘once-upon-a-time’ classrooms!For Complete IIPM Article, Click on IIPM Article
Source : IIPM Editorial, 2007
An IIPM and Professor Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist) Initiative
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