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"For those who are blind, dyslexic or have diseases like multiple sclerosis and have difficulty turning book pages, reading the latest best seller just got easier. Brewster Kahle, a digital librarian and founder of a virtual library called the Internet Archive, has launched a worldwide campaign to double the number of books available for print-disabled people."

virtual worlds researchers group in Second Life

The Virtual Assessment Project: Harvard Graduate School of Education -

Florida Virtual School District

Virtual Libraries as learning hubs & collaboration centers

Virtual Libraries as learning hubs & collaboration centers

technique for capturing 3D surfaces for modeling in virtual environments

Emerging Technologies for Online Learning Symposium, a joint Symposium of Sloan Consortium and MERLOT with MoodleMoot, is designed to bring together individuals interested in the technological aspects of online learning. The symposium, focusing on the technologies that drive online learning effectiveness, will continue to highlight research, applications, and best practices of important emerging technological tools. Experts, intermediate users and novices are welcome to participate in Symposium activities that will include face-to-face and virtual components. Symposium tracks highlight and demonstrate research, application and best practices of important emerging technological tools related to social networking, assessment, open educational resources, new media and support services. The Symposium is brought to you by the partnership of the Sloan Consortium, MERLOT, and MoodleMoot.

Virtual Cell Animation Collection - useful for supported text studies

Math: SpeedCrunch is a fast, high precision and powerful desktop calculator * history and results on a scrollable display * up to 50 decimal precisions * unlimited variable storage * intelligent automatic completion * fully usable from the keyboard * more than 50 built-in math functions * optional virtual keypad to be used with a mouse * on-the-fly and selection calculation * customizable appearance * syntax highlighting and parentheses matching

Immersion is the subjective impression that one is participating in a comprehensive, realistic experience. Interactive media now enable various degrees of digital immersion. The more a virtual immersive experience is based on design strategies that combine actional, symbolic, and sensory factors, the greater the participant's suspension of disbelief that she or he is "inside" a digitally enhanced setting. Studies have shown that immersion in a digital environment can enhance education in at least three ways: by allowing multiple perspectives, situated learning, and transfer. Further studies are needed on the capabilities of immersive media for learning, on the instructional designs best suited to each type of immersive medium, and on the learning strengths and preferences these media develop in users.

Kzero: a consulting company that does market and strategy research on virtual worlds, augmented reality and 3D gaming

Virtual Worlds Education Forum

emerging tech blog: Lisa Dawley, chair of EdTech at Boise State

emerging tech blog: Lisa Dawley, chair of EdTech at Boise State

International Journal of Gaming and Computer-Mediated Simulations (IJGCMS) special issue on ARVEL SIG 2009 papers.

Includes Jonathon Richter's manuscript on Collaboratories and Virtual Safaris as Research in Virtual Learning Environments Scholarship

MUVEDesign: social virtual world creation blog by Gary Hayes in Australia

Virtual High School: place to purchase online courses for redistribution

Conspiracy Code: a Florida Virtual School-developed game to learn higher order thinking and standards-based American History