University course in MMORPG-style

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Steve Vosloo

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Dec 18, 2008, 8:44:51 AM12/18/08

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David Wiley, "open" guru extraordinaire, is offering his course IPT
692R: Introduction to Open Education as a massively multiplayer
role-playing game.

See http://open.byu.edu/ipt692r-wiley/.

Students take on the role of characters, form guilds, undertake quests,
etc. to gain experience points (which correlate to grade levels)

It'll be interesting to see the response. It looks like fun!

(Thanks, Steve Song, for pointing this out.)

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