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A presentation at the JISC RSC Eastern Regional Conference, The Reality of Virtual Worlds, held at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge on 31 March 2009.

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Virtual worlds in education The story so far…
 
My first positive experience
My inspiration…
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I think there is a real danger that as we ‘sanitise’ virtual worlds for use in education, we destroy the magic that makes them what they are
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Virtual worlds in education - a story so far