Online Games: Literature, New Media, and Narrative is an excellent online course offered by Vanderbilt University through the free online learning community called Coursera.
Located at https://www.coursera.org/course/onlinegames, this course places emphasis on storytelling, cross media representation, and remediation of various works of literature and art.
The main focus of the course is to explore the changes that occurs to a story when it has been converted to a movie and an online video game.
This course mainly involves J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings books and movies, and The Lord of the Rings Online MMORPG.
Students taking this course spend time interacting with one another within the game and keeping logs of their gameplay; reading various books, short stories, and poems; watching a selection of plays and movies; and attending video classes taped at Vanderbilt University.
Angela,
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Debbie
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ReplyDeleteMaking a classroom interactive is very hard and time consuming but the benefits that the students receive ate immeasurable. Great information
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