Next Stop: OpenSim!

Autor/in	Korolov, Maria
Titel	Next Stop: OpenSim!
Quelle	In: T.H.E. Journal, 38 (2011) 1, S.46-48 (5 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0192-592X
Schlagwörter	Virtual Classrooms; Computer Simulation; Social Systems; Internet; Educational Finance; Cost Effectiveness; Field Trips; Elementary Secondary Education; Museums; Competition; Educational Technology + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Computergrafik; Computersimulation; Social system; Soziales System; Bildungsfonds; Kosten-Nutzen-Analyse; Kosten-Nutzen-Denken; Exkursion; Museum; Museumswesen; Museen; Wettkampf; Unterrichtsmedien
Abstract	Unhappy with conditions in Second Life, educators are migrating to a developing virtual world that offers them greater autonomy and a safer platform for their students at far less a cost. OpenSimulator is an open source virtual world platform that schools can run for free on their own servers or can get cheaply and quickly--the space can be up and running within a day--from any number of hosting vendors like ReactionGrid. One powerful edge OpenSim has over Second Life, and every other virtual environment, is that it is the first and only platform that allows for hypergridding--which is to say that OpenSim users can seamlessly teleport from one world to another. In practice, what this means for K-12 interests is that students can take field trips from their home base to any of hundreds of other virtual environments already running on the platform, including scientific simulations, museums, and, of course, other schools. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10