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Saturday, February 07, 2009
Tech-savvy educators opening new worlds to students via cyber classes - TAMSYN BURGMANN, THE CANADIAN PRESS
As pens and legal pads have given way to laptops in the lecture hall, professors who are usually incensed by key tapping and the annoyances of technology have gradually adjusted -- or at least accepted that such gizmos are here to stay. The most innovative of the bunch have turned the distractions of technology to their advantage. These tech-savvy educators are transplanting the classroom into the digital realm, shifting eager students into cyber-classes and shedding teaching limitations of the past. Lyle Wetsch is one of those professors. Last year, he joined at least 10 other Canadian educational institutions inhabiting Second Life, an online virtual world, to teach an MBA class for students at Memorial University in St. John's, N. L.
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