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Teaching and Learning

What are the possibilities of creative and practical online collaboration and learning in Multi-User Virtual Environments (MUVEs)?

Researching

A record of the research done during the Open Habitat project and a look forward to where the field may be going seen through that lens.

Managing

A trail of how some of the issues in the Open Habitat project were dealt with, together with some of our successes and challenges.

Voice from Open Habitat

Real-world / in-world transferral of etiquette

As the students arrived there was chat about appearance etc. One of the students shared some revealing clothes with Marianne who became a little uncomfortable when she tried on a top with a plunging neckline more suited to the oldest profession in the world rather than a philosophy tutor. This did help to break the ice though as did each time a student arrived and sat down facing away from the group by accident.

David White