Dr. Linda Polin is the Davidson Professor of Education and Technology at the Pepperdine University Graduate School of Education and Psychology (GSEP), where she teaches in the hybrid (online and face-to-face) doctoral program in educational technology. She teaches courses in learning, technology, and design, as well as in research design. Her research interests focus on learning and knowledge sharing in online communities. Her current research interests focus on knowledge co-construction and sharing, such as learning in informal online communities. Dr. Polin is studying informal yet self-organized learning communities in massively multiplayer online gaming and literature-based role-playing communities on the Web.
Hi Linda . . . excited to see you here . . . @markwagner over on Twitter is doing a dissertation on mmorpg's . . . don't know if he is here but his stuff sounds interesting.
Check out our series of free live workshops around the United States on the use of Web 2.0 technologies in education. Coming up: Chicago, New York, Maui, Sacramento, and Boston. More details and information here.
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My dissertation: http://edtechlife.com/dissertation/
My games in education workshop for teachers: http://powerup.wikispaces.com/cue2008
The Games in Education category on my blog (though there's lots of my dissertation here too): http://edtechlife.com/?cat=13
That should probably get your students started in an interesting direction, but let me know if you have questions about any of it.
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