Today I was tasked with the third of our ongoing series of experimental classes. Ostensibly the topic was my 3L paper on asynchronous discussions in the law school classroom, but as the topic is both boring and stale, I decided to try using the time to experiment with testing tools educators often use in the […]
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Lauren ran our second experimental class tonight in There, covering the topic of municipal WiFi and the fact that many cities are trading users’ (residents’) usage information in exchange for discounted or free ISP services. Lauren discussed privacy concerns and why we should care about them.
A few things I noticed about the class this time […]
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Yesterday I had the privilege of receiving a guided tour of Nortern Illinois University’s Second Life campus from its architect, manager, and evangelist Aline Click (RL) / Ali Andrews (SL). (This is one of those cases in which a person’s real name seems more appropriate than her Second Life name!). Ali painstakingly crafted a replica […]
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CyberOne, the course offered jointly by Harvard Law School and the Harvard Extension School, is now open for registration.
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CyberOne landed front-page coverage in this week’s Boston Phoenix supplemental Education section. (See also “Does your life suck?,” earlier coverage from the Phoenix, and Virtual Marketing: Firms create online worlds as new way to reach big audiences in the Globe). Writes Kate Cohen, who attended one of our team meetings:
For those accustomed to traditional forms […]
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Wandering through a law school gym, most people might only see stressed-out students burning calories to their favorite tunes. The founders of AudioCaseFiles.com, which went live today, see a lost educational opportunity — and a potential business.
It’s well-established in educational pyschology that different students learn differently — some learn best through reading, and others through […]
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Berkman Island, which will host the CyberOne course, was featured in the September issue of Popular Science (no article yet on their site). The article describes another educational effort already underway — Wells Fargo’s branded island to teach financial responsibility (though a quick Google search shows that they subsequently abandoned the effort — the new […]
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David (Big Ups!) leads a class attended by (l to r) Lauren, Kaylea, 1BlackBelt, myself, and TehMike
This evening (9pm EST / 5pm PST) David Johnson taught a class on Castronova’s Synthetic Worlds and its implications for virtual-world education. I’ll leave the official writeup to the official SoPA blog, but from a participant’s and instructional designer’s […]
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One of the major affordances that educators often cite when describing MUVEs is exploration: learning by walking around, asking questions, poking things, and a general sense of discovery (which can blend over into purposeful experimentation). However, until recently most of the virtual spaces that students explore are artificial, not just in the physical sense but […]
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In discussing with Lauren and myself the possibility of his teaching a class this afternoon, Prof. Andrew Berman of NYLS asked for examples of other educational efforts that have made use of virtual spaces. Using del.icio.us, I have been gathering links to sites describing such efforts here.
Actually, Prof. Berman asked whether virtual law teaching has […]
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