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Freedman Center in EDUCAUSE & New Media Consortium Horizon Report

The EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) and New Media Consortium (NMC) Horizon Project has released their research "Six Key Emerging Technologies for Higher Ed" (January 30, 2008). Describing six areas of emerging technologies that are expected to have impact on teaching, learning, and creative expression in higher education within 3-5 years, the report notes a project by the Freedman Center.

The report uses the example of Pocket Virtual Worlds, a collaborative effort between the College of Technology, Bowling Green State University and the Kelvin Smith Library Freedman Center. Using the project's technological applications, you can take a virtual field trip to a medieval ruin or an African safari... create images and recreate/explore locations in history, and take the experience to a game playing level.

Try it out now: 'walk' in a campus building you may never have been in before, and see it 360-degrees:
- See the Pocket Virtual Worlds Flash Demonstration in Studio One of Mather Dance Studio. Celebrate Mather's centennial year with a photographic, virtual reality interactive experience—slide along and 'dance' in the studio!

Read about the project and download the 32-page 2008 Horizon Report, which is freely accessible and released under a Creative Commons license for sharing.

Posted by Karen Oye on February 5, 2008 05:21 PM
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