eNET (education net)

What is it?
eNET means free educational tools available throughout the world and a persistent virtual world where students, teachers and institutions interact using forums and gaming.

The Idea
Is it possible to learn through gaming? How? For example, a teacher has to explain the English Civil War: they can do it canonically or they can make a role-play, where the students act as important historical characters such as Charles I or Cromwell and discover the whys and the still unsolved questions about that historical period. It is not easy to make such a game, isn't it? A website providing material and help could solve this issue. More, why not making a persistent virtual world where pupils from every country can create their own characters, play videogames with educative background, learn new languages of every kind, like graphical arts, music and mathematics, and understand foreign cultures?
Teachers will be able to play in this world as well, and control the advancing of the students, who would level-up when they learn and gain access to more advanced content and applications. Discussion about scientific, artistic and ethical questions will be strongly promoted and international forums will be created for this purpose. Special programs for disadvantaged people will be designed in order to make them actively participate in both real and virtual life.
Universities will provide the most advanced content and create simulations of real world careers, thus helping students decide where to go, and providing a valuable tool for the experimentation of new working solutions.
Moreover, students progresses in the real world could provide invaluable feed-back for researchers in pedagogy, psychology and health.
This net would represent a hub for educational tools developers, real schools and parents as well, since they will be actively participating in the development of every application, didactic material and the persistent virtual world itself.
Everyone who played videogames knows it is pure fun. Where is the sin in having fun and learning at the same time?

Category:

Education

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• 10tothe100
• 10tothe100th
• Education
• Language
• Computer
• Science
• Social
• Visual
• Arts
• Videogames
• Gaming