Virtual Ed
I was poking around Technorati, searching at entries with education and design as tags, and I found this interesting blog describing “Web 2.0″ tools that could be useful to students and faculty at various level institutions. I looked at a few of the collaborative tools…somewhat promising.
But then I found a link to a course being offered this semester by Harvard Law School in conjunction with Harvard University Extension. As far as I can tell, this is a class about argumentation, particularly in relatively new venues such as blogs, wikis, and the like. That’s interesting enough in its own right. But then…much of the class is being taught within SecondLife, even the office hours of one of the faculty members are situated in the virtual world. Could “distance education” be about to experience a paradigm shift?