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http://blogs.sun.com/kevinr/date/20090114 Wednesday January 14, 2009

Wonderland arrives at MIT

This friday I'll be cheering on Jordan and Warren as they both arrive back to Cambridge as triumphant alumni to participate in the Virtual Worlds at MIT forum event hosted by the Office of Educational Innovation and Technology. The office is led by Director and good friend Vijay Kumar who I should mention has a great new book out called Opening Up Education that is a must read for anyone interested in the subject. It's been a week full of news from MIT as an article in the Times hit yesterday and mentioned John, an i-SIG member and distinguished Professor, in a great article about Large lectures are going the way of the blackboard. As Bob Dylan once wrote, The Times They Are a Changin'.






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