Imagining the World: The Case for Non-Rendered Virtuality - the Role Play Simulation Model

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Imagining the World: The Case for Non-Rendered Virtuality - the Role Play Simulation Model
A 'rendered' virtual environment is one in which the scene is generated dynamically by the computer, such as in Doom or Quake or in flight simulators. The author's argument in this paper is that rendering in educational games detracts from a focus on pedagogy and is, moreover, unnecessary. More...