11047

11047

General Session - Conference Presentation Only (no formal paper)

Near Term Developments in Virtual Education
Frank Whiting, Shasta College, Red Bluff Campus, CA, USA, Stungthumbz@aol.com

Answers the question: "Why should I get an expensive computer and pay tuition to sit in a virtual classroom with a bunch of other virtual students and listen to a virtual professor drone on from the front of the virtual room?"

Using examples from several current virtual worlds, and ongoing virtual world building projects, as well as from lessons learned in the virtual campus and classroom over the past 5 years, maps the progress, status and future of virtual education into the second decade of the 21st Century.

All Audiences Near Future Virtual Education