This website is home to an ongoing study of Massively-Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game (MMORPG) players. MMORPGs, or MMOs, are a video game genre that allow thousands of people to interact, compete, and collaborate in an online virtual environment. Over the past 6 years, more than 40,000 MMORPG players have participated in the project by completing surveys about their playing style, habits, and preferences. Various topics have been examined, from gender-related motivation factors to the effect of running an in-game guild on one’s real life experiences. The results of the research are available as reports sorted by topic.

Two short videos prepared by the Online Learning department at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) showcase the center’s activities. The first video provides an overview of several projects at RIT. Topics include Pachyderm, the Student Response System, RIT’s course management systems approach, remote tutoring with Breeze Meeting, and blended learning courses. The second video highlights the advantages of using technology to facilitate teamwork and social networking among deaf and hearing students.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology and University of Wisconsin-Madison have joined forces to catalyze new creative teaching and learning innovations around the next generation of commercially available educational electronic games.

The Learning Commons at the University of Calgary has worked with the Glenbow museum to create Mavericks: An Incorrigible History of Alberta, an extensive, interactive website that introduces the legendary tales and colorful personalities who shaped and defined Alberta's history, and are the predecessors of Alberta's maverick nature.

The Princeton Online Poetry Project is a collection of poems in various languages, synchronized to digital audio recordings of the texts, read by native speakers. Users of this interactive courseware can enhance their learning experience by accessing "pop-up� links with definitional, biographical, and/or philological data.

Mixxer is an online site for language exchange between students all over the world. Using Skype, a free voice-over-IP service, students can speak with native speakers of the language they are learning -- and help those speakers to learn another language as well.

Designed to provide a view into classroom practices that effectively integrate both subject matter content and teaching standards, these case studies have been crafted by a team of experts for new teachers. Content focuses on teaching strategies, curriculum development, and best practices. The site is intended for new teachers and students in teacher education programs.

The UO Channel at the University of Oregon is a gateway to video programs that reflect the quality, creativity, and diversity of academic and cultural life at the university. Featured programs include lectures, interviews, performances, symposia, documentary productions, and more. In addition to video/streaming media on demand, the UO Channel also provides access to campus radio stations.

Created to accompany the eponymous textbook (The Physical Universe, by Konrad B Krauskopf and Arthur Beiser; McGraw-Hill), this extensive site includes animations and figures for each chapter, along with study questions and exercises.  The site stands on its own with introductory text for each topic that sets the stage for exploration within subject areas such as the scientific method, matter and energy, the atom, the Periodic Law, and the solar system, among others.

ArtXplore is a multimedia program running on a hand-held PDA. The interface highlights information on 16 objects in 12 galleries at the Indianapolis Museum of Art and provides the information wirelessly to the museum visitor. Additionally, museum patrons are able to review their experience and provide comments to the curator directly from the PDA.

In Fall 2005, the Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies and Media at Michigan State University launched the Game Design and Development Specialization. The specialization  brings together undergraduate students majoring in digital media arts and technology within the department of Telecommunication, Information Studies, and Media, Computer Science, and Studio Art. Combining these perspectives and talent, students explore the history, social impacts, technology, design fundamentals, and the art of team-based digital game production. 

The David Rumsey Historical Map Collection includes over 11,000 maps, all available online. The collection focuses on rare 18th and 19th century North and South American maps and other cartographic materials.

The University of Texas has provided a crash course in copyright, with emphasis on using copyrighted materials in teaching and in educational multimedia. The course includes information on fair use, multimedia, online presentations, digital libraries and more, and includes links to additional resources for further information. The entire course is licensed under a Creative Commons license.