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Mr. Walsh is speaking about Immersive Education, which is developed through the Immersive Education Initiative (http://ImmersiveEducation.org ) that he founded in 2007 (which is a free consortium for educators who want to use these learning technologies). The Immersive Education Initiative is an international collaboration of universities, colleges, research institutes, consortia and companies that are working together to define and develop open standards, best practices, platforms, and communities of support for virtual reality and game-based learning and training systems. Thousands of faculty, researchers, staff, administrators and students are members of the Immersive Education Initiative, which is growing at the rate of approximately 2 new members every day. Initiative members have early access to the Education Grid, where they can conduct classes and meetings within a growing collection of virtual worlds. Initiative members can also use the Education Grid to build custom virtual learning worlds, simulations, and learning games.

Educators can join the Immersive Education Initiative free of charge at http://ImmersiveEducation.org

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With modern virtual reality technologies you can use your own face at virtual classes, e.g. realxtend open source virtual world platform allows the use of facegen software to create your face from two photographs. In the future it is possible to recognize user's emotions and show them online. virtual reality really goes towards reality... this all makes online learning more potential than before.

A small correction to the above: MIT does not offer online degrees but rather provides the course materials--including syllabi, lecture notes, assignments and exams--from over 1,800 courses freely and openly via the MIT OpenCourseWare site (ocwmit.edu). The materials may be downloaded and modified for non-commercial purposes, but no interactioin with MIT faculty of students is available and no recognition is provided for self -study using teh materials