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Friday, January 11, 2008

Media Grid Proposes Cross-Platform Grid For Immersive Education

-At a pre-summit event for Media Grid's upcoming Boston Digital Media Summit, 54 Second Life residents proposed a three to five-year plan to create a dedicated "education grid" for Second Life, comprised of computers for non-profit learning-focused content.

Second Life News Network, which reported from the pre-summit event, says the idea would be to create a large, meta-tagged database of content specifically for educators so they can implement virtual learning environments quickly in their classrooms.

Sun Microsystems' Wonderland and Duke's Croquet were also mentioned as "immersive education platforms" that could be plugged into the proposed grid, as all three meet open source code requirements, and can be plugged into the proposed grid. Ideally, it would create a consistent cross-platform education experience with standard interfaces and modalities, explains Second Life News Network.

Said initiative director and Media Grid director Aaron Walsh during his pre-summit talk, "The future is not a single platform. Multiple platforms can provide similar experiences, consistent from platform to platform.”

[Via Second Life News Network]

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Posted by Leigh Alexander on January 11, 2008 11:09 AM |

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