Into the Twilight Zone: Innovations for Education, Virtual Worlds and Emerging Media

Abstract

Constructivist learning activities offer excellent opportunities for students to dream and create the future. In a creativity exercise, an emerging media class used online collaborative tools to share their visions of the future, and explored what it would take to realize their dreams. The featured topics span augmented reality, innovations in Web technology, game-based educational simulations, artificial intelligence in knowledge management, research in holographic displays, and the requirements for a Virtual World Education Grid.