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OPENING REMARKS
The pursuit of an online virtual university is probably as old as networking itself. There have been various incarnations of virtual teaching over the years and a great many more simulations. At the same time, online games have recently exploded onto the popular culture and will play a significant role in shaping society to come. Like a real university or a virtual game, an online learning environment should not be a static collection of simulations but rather an engaging and fun social experience. This project represents my efforts at achieving this vision of a game-based virtual university. This project is known as the Massively Multi-User Synchronous Collaborative Learning Environment, the MMUSCLE™ project. Its first incarnation will teach Physics using a hihg-fantasy MMORPG model in a game currently known as Physics Adventures in Space-Time or PAST™. This section of our website will detail the educational portion of the game. It will serve as a compliment to The Game side which outlines the entertainment aspects of our game. GUIDING PHILOSOPHY
These are a few of my guiding principles in the quest to create my world:
PHYSICS PEDAGOGY
Following our principles, these are the concepts we wish to cover with PAST:
GAME OBJECTIVES
We finally use the pedagogy as a guide for our game design:
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