{"id":6,"date":"2006-08-09T00:25:39","date_gmt":"2006-08-09T04:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/2006\/08\/09\/video-vidi-visum-virtual\/"},"modified":"2006-08-09T00:25:39","modified_gmt":"2006-08-09T04:25:39","slug":"video-vidi-visum-virtual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/2006\/08\/09\/video-vidi-visum-virtual\/","title":{"rendered":"video vidi visum : virtual"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>vvv:v<\/strong> documents new initiatives taking place across several American law schools to use Multi-User Virtual Environments as teaching tools or settings. <a href=\"http:\/\/lester.rice.edu\/browse\/lstkeywordbrowse.aspx?Mid=61&amp;tabIndex=0&amp;tabid=1&amp;ord=542\">MUVE<\/a>s afford law teachers significant new capabilities ranging from group discussions with higher &#8220;emotional bandwidth&#8221; than text chatting, to simulating complex systems that would be difficult to experience in realspace, to exploring the legal and pseudo-legal dimensions of an emerging <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Metaverse\">Metaverse<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Educational researchers prefer the term &#8220;MUVE&#8221; to lend their work a more serious air, but most people are more familiar with the term <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mmorpg\">MMORPG<\/a> &#8212; Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games. MMORPGs are hot topics, especially since researchers discovered that their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/books\/displaystory.cfm?story_id=5300059\">economies rival some nations<\/a>. Companies in this sector are portraying their technology as analogous to the Web in 1992, a claim that has some credence when you start to appreciate that at its best, MUVEs are platforms and not just products.<\/p>\n<p>In this blog I hope to document the work of pioneering legal teachers in this medium, the early adopters who see the promise of a new medium to push education towards ever more effective, engaging, or even just entertaining directions. I look forward to new experiences that I cannot now even imagine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>vvv:v documents new initiatives taking place across several American law schools to use Multi-User Virtual Environments as teaching tools or settings. MUVEs afford law teachers significant new capabilities ranging from group discussions with higher &#8220;emotional bandwidth&#8221; than text chatting, to simulating complex systems that would be difficult to experience in realspace, to exploring the legal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":271,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[863],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-related"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6","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=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}