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I'm interested that when Michael Wesch or Howard Rheingold undertake this sort of social/distributed teaching, they rely quite heavily on RAs to pick u the slack and fill in the gaps. Perhaps that where I'm going wrong, expecting the students to achieve this sort of outcome with insufficient scaffolding.
Das europäische Projekt MUVEnation - "Lehren und Lernen mit Multi-User Learning Environments (MUVEs)" - schult Lehramtsstudierende und Lehrkräfte der Primar- und Sekundarstufe in der Verwendung von virtuellen Welten im Unterricht.
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