{"id":18,"date":"2006-08-17T20:40:05","date_gmt":"2006-08-18T00:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/2006\/08\/17\/cyberone-in-the-boston-phoenix\/"},"modified":"2006-08-19T22:29:23","modified_gmt":"2006-08-20T02:29:23","slug":"cyberone-in-the-boston-phoenix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/2006\/08\/17\/cyberone-in-the-boston-phoenix\/","title":{"rendered":"CyberOne in the Boston Phoenix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thephoenix.com\/article_ektid20561.aspx\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/files\/2006\/08\/Pathfinder_Harvard03.jpg\" alt=\"Austin Hall on Berkman Island\" align=\"right\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>CyberOne landed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thephoenix.com\/article_ektid20561.aspx\">front-page coverag<\/a>e in this week&#8217;s Boston Phoenix supplemental Education section. (See also &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thephoenix.com\/article_ektid17440.aspx\">Does your life suck?<\/a>,&#8221; earlier coverage from the Phoenix, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lcmedia.com\/Globevirtual.htm\">Virtual Marketing: Firms create online worlds as new way to reach big audiences<\/a> in the Globe). Writes Kate Cohen, who attended one of our team meetings:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For those accustomed to traditional forms of online learning, the possibilities presented by a 3-D teaching environment make correspondence courses seem antiquated. &#8220;Distance students have a very disconnected feeling,&#8221; says Harvard Extension School instructor Rebecca Nesson, who will be teaching her first class [CyberOne] in <i>Second Life<\/i> this fall. For the extension school&#8217;s typical Web-based courses, a student might check in with an instructor from time to time, but interaction among peers can be iffy, with no set protocol for making it happen.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, MUVEs aren&#8217;t the only solution to the feeling of disconnection that distance students often feel &#8212; at Legal Aid University we&#8217;ve been using WebEx and other synchronous tools to enhance the learning experience for students from the beginning. Insofar as one considers MUVEs as a supplement to standard distance courses, the critical questions are (1) how much MUVEs strengthen the community among students; and (2) whether these communities can thrive with minimal push from the teacher. Both are ultimately questions about cost-effectiveness: the first presumes that in-person events are the gold standard, but that an immersive environment can be almost as good and certainly cheaper; the second that students can truly teach each other, shifting the burden (and expense) off the teacher.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s really exciting about the potential of MUVEs, though, is moving beyond the traditional e-learning model into activities that simply aren&#8217;t possible in any other medium. We&#8217;ll be experimenting with some of these in CyberOne as well&#8230; more on this to come&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CyberOne landed front-page coverage in this week&#8217;s Boston Phoenix supplemental Education section. (See also &#8220;Does your life suck?,&#8221; earlier coverage from the Phoenix, and Virtual Marketing: Firms create online worlds as new way to reach big audiences in the Globe). Writes Kate Cohen, who attended one of our team meetings: For those accustomed to traditional [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":271,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[866],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cyberone-hls"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/271"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}