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Monday, May 11, 2009
Online learning classes just got funkier - Ryan Alessi, Herald Leader
If this sounds like a school of the future, well, it might just be, Story said. "We're living in a very electronic, socially connected world, and we want our learning environment to match that," Story said to an observer during a recent class. Story conducts his class entirely in the virtual world Second Life, an online social-networking program in which players become characters known as avatars. That makes for an odd teaching environment.
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