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This article describes how Stanford University Medical Center is using a web-based medical game called "Septris" to train its physicians on sepsis.

Will great professors start defecting to interactive media, where they could become media stars? I wonder how truly interactive or engaging this type of delivery is.

Jeremy Bailenson from the Virtual Human Interaction Lab (Stanford) talks at the Berkman Center about how the use of avatars fundamentally alters communication styles both in virtual and real world settings. (Includes video and slides)

The new "open university" collaboration between Princeton, Stanford, UMich and Penn.

They have some interesting offerings with some impressive people!

I tried taking a course on there, and noticed that 1) offerings are very limited and 2) you have to wait until the course officially "starts", just like an in-person class. I think there are 3 starting April 23rd and all the rest are either this summer, next fall, or "TBA"...I thought the whole idea is that you could take them anytime!

A lengthy but informative New Yorker article for those interested in higher education and technology.

Good overview of mental imagery as a supplement to Gee.

A study out of Stanford looked at how videogames, in particular serious games and games for health, can activate circuits in the brain associated with positive motivation. "The study published today provides new insights into how these effects might have occurred, revealing that active participation in gameplay events is key to activating the brain's positive motivation circuits. Seeing and hearing the same information without active participation in gameplay had no impact on activity in positive motivation circuits."

For the data analysts among us... This article mentions the Stanford University online course where every mouse click of 20,000 students is tracked in real time. "If 5,000 people had the same wrong answer, it's obvious a concept is not getting through, and you have a clear path that shows where students went wrong."

office hours on facebook?

Researchers from Yale and Stanford study how people make face and scene associations.

In context of Professor Dede's comment from last class about the "Proteus Effect"...some punchlines from Professor Jeremy Bailenson about the power avatars can exert on their creators.

One study showing how the use of realistic avatars can influence people to exercise or eat better and can influence they way they view women.

a research project collecting short stories about how people experience mathematics in everyday life