Teaching Science in Virtual Worlds
Posted Wednesday, May 31st, 2006, at 10:57 am Eastern by Mark Wallace
Sixth-graders in Wisconsin are apparently using an avatarized virtual environment built at Harvard to learn about science. MUVEES, which is saddled with one of the most unwieldy names I’ve come across in virtual worlds (Multi-User Virtual Environment Experimental Simulator), lets users don avatars to navigate a shared 3D online space filled with “virtual architectures,” “digital artifacts,” and “museum-related multimedia and virtual environments for teaching and learning science.” But why aren’t these people just using Second Life, There.com, or ActiveWorlds, any of which could almost certainly do the job better? It seems that market education in this area still has a long way to go.
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