By building virtual classrooms on the Project Wonderland platform, learning institutions can create opportunities for truly immersive education that caters to students’ diverse learning styles. The platform also encourages collaboration between schools, enabling educators to easily share teaching best practices across local and global borders.
The flexibility of Java technology also allows schools to easily integrate Project Wonderland into existing enterprise applications such as learning management systems, student systems and digital library collections.
Project Wonderland is an open source toolkit for creating collaborative 3D virtual worlds in which users can communicate with audio, and share live applications such as Web browsers, OpenOffice.org suite documents and games.
Sun said that the platform is ideally suited to the education sector because it sits inside the school’s own firewall and thus provides a higher level of security and control than is possible on other virtual platforms. Within the Project Wonderland virtual learning space, schools maintain complete control over content, ensuring that it is age-appropriate, educational and engaging.
