Educational Gaming Commons

We had our largest lunch gathering yet today for our monthly brown bag discussions. We spent the majority of the time looking at a virtual world called ProtoSphere by Proton Media. This is the only virtual world available built from the ground up for education and training. We had faculty members from various colleges discussing collaborative opportunities utilizing class projects within ProtoSphere, where different course sections would be responsible for things like designing the learning environment, implementing the environment and evaluating the learning outcomes.

We are currently in discussions with Proton Media for a PSU-specific instance of ProtoSphere. We'll continue to post updates to the EGC blog as talks move forward. Look for an announcement regarding the next brown bag lunch for May (probably the final week of May sometime).