The Croquet Consortium is a not-for-profit corporation begun at Duke University in 2004 dedicated to the design and development of collaborative, open source code software efforts that are targeted at supporting deeply collaborative multi-user online applications and virtual worlds for education, research and scholarly activities. Croquet has been selected as an Immersive Education platform.
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The John C. Ford Program's Global Education Initiative [Ford Program-GEI Project] is collaborating with the Immersive Education Initiative to further shared objectives, including accelerating and strengthening the acquisition of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) skills, problem-solving and creative thinking skills in underserved K-12 and college students, worldwide; achieving and sustaining the United Nations Millennium Development Goals and UNESCO Education For All goals; more...
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The Education Grid is a free public utility provided by the Immersive Education Initiative and its members. Members have early access to the Education Grid, where they can conduct classes and meetings within a growing collection of virtual worlds. Initiative members can also use the Education Grid to build custom virtual learning worlds, simulations, and learning games. Virtual learning environments on the Education Grid may be hosted by the initiative, by member organizations (such as high scho more...
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Immersive Education, a Media Grid initiative, is an award-winning learning platform that combines interactive 3D graphics, commercial game and simulation technology, virtual reality, voice chat (Voice over IP/VoIP), Web cameras (webcams) and rich digital media with collaborative online course environments and classrooms. Following an award-winning 2 year pilot, Boston College (in cooperation with the Grid Institute, Media Grid, Burke Institute for Innovation in Education, Media Machines, City o more...
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Representatives of dozens of colleges, universities and other non-profit and academic organizations will meet in California this week to launch a pioneering national project: Creation of high-quality, accessible and culturally relevant textbooks for community college students that will be freely available on the Internet.
Working with respected partners, the Community College Open Textbook Project will evaluate four models for developing and producing open textbooks for community colleg more...
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By Alison Muir 20 June 2008
Ever wished someone would research and prepare your work for you and hand it to you on a platter? For physics teachers in NSW that's exactly what the University of Sydney's School of Physics is aiming for.
Going live this month is an online kit of syllabus-based physics tools, developed by Dr Manjula Sharma and Derek Muller from the Sydney University Physics Education Research (SUPER) group with the support of an Australian Schools Innovation more...
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