Content-type: text/html Downes.ca ~ Stephen's Web ~ Researcher Sees a Big Role for Virtual Reality in Distance EducationCRLF

Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community
The Chronicle discovers virtual reality. Oh ok, maybe not that bad, but that's how this interview comes off. And it sounds like Jaron Lanier - the scientist who (the article says) coined the term 'virtual reality' - sees VR as a tool for emulating the classroom over the internet, an astonishing lack of vision that can't really be what he meant. But he does say, "If I'm in a university environment, and I see a slacker kid falling asleep in the back row, I'll challenge them. And I think that that's absolutely essential. I'm really not comfortable losing that connection." But that's not the future of VR in education, is it? Tell me not.

Today: 0 Total: 16 [Direct link] [Share]

Image from the website


Stephen Downes Stephen Downes, Casselman, Canada
stephen@downes.ca

Copyright 2024
Last Updated: Dec 23, 2024 06:31 a.m.

Canadian Flag Creative Commons License.

Force:yes