Blog Review Summary Class 12

This article summarizes an interview with Aaron Walsh, a teacher at Boston College and programmer. In this promotional piece one of his former students interviews him about Virtual Reality (VR) and what it means in a learning and educational environment as well as looking at his history in the the fields of VR and education. In the article the writer makes sure to plug all Media Grid and Immersive Education both of which are organizations created with the help of Professor Walsh.
The bulk of the article deals with an interview via e-mail with Arron in which he talks about the way his VR and Video Games class meets for the first two classes in person (now obsolete) to make sure the students have updated and fast computers for the class. This way the student doesn't discover a few classes in to the semester that his/her computer is entirely to slow and he/she will spend hours and hours with assignments that will take students with fast computer only minutes to do.
In the interview they go on to discuss why second life is not an option for Aaron's learning environments right now. They then talk about the pro's and con's of this type of learning environment as well as the difficulty of delivering learning materials within this style of format. Finally Professor Walsh talks about Immersive Illness and it potenial damage especially in the future when VR games and platforms could be that much better.

Here is a link to this powerful piece :

Virtual reality and higher education: Another perspective