Friday, January 09, 2009
Virtual Worlds and Education
I am currently thinking about Virtual worlds and their utility for education and writing a book chapter on this subject that is specifically related to Science Education. Public education is coming to crisis point due to the changing attitudes of learners and the changing nature of our techno driven world. Our learning environments lack flexibility and are very slow to change due to them being government driven. Lets hope that VWs and other innovative ways of learning start to permeate the system soon - but how to kick start this process is an issue. We are currently locked in by too much commercialisation of products leading to a lack of educational content, but until we get traction in the education arena that's unlikely to change. A dilemma!
