World of workcraft: Educating and training "Digital Natives"

Cutter IT Journal

Volumn 21, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 26-31

  Wyld, David C ^a,b  

^a SOUTHEASTERN LOUISIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b E govemment Initiative ^*

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References (33)

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3. eMarketer. See 2.
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8. Steel. See 7.
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10. eMarketer. See 6.
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17. Prensky. See 14.
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21. Wagner. See 20.
22. See Ganis, Matthew, Garrett Hall, and David McNeill, "Virtual Worlds as Real-World Sales Tools," pp. 19-25 in this issue.
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25. Gaylord. See 11.
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29. Brown and Thomas. See 28.
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33. Perhaps the best example to date is IBM's Virtual World Guidelines, which are available at http://domino.research_ibm.com/comm/research_projects.nsf/ pages/virtualworlds. IBMVirtualWorldGuidelines.html.