{"id":1195,"date":"2025-12-26T21:43:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T21:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cogitateandpercolate.com\/?p=1195"},"modified":"2026-06-29T14:13:05","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T14:13:05","slug":"when-tech-platforms-donate-the-resources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cogitateandpercolate.com\/?p=1195","title":{"rendered":"When Tech Platforms Donate The Resources"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As much as I admire Jeremy Bailenson’s research work (really!) his Communication 166\/266 Virtual People course<\/a> in June 2021 had some real problems. In its defense, it was a first-of-its-kind<\/i> course, even if it wasn’t the very first course in VR. Depending on how to define VR versus XR, groups of this size, 263, have met synchronously in other platforms.<\/p>\n

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Boast Much?<\/span><\/h3>\n

Bailenson defends<\/a>: \u201cTo the best of my knowledge, nobody has networked hundreds of students
\n(with) VR headsets for months at a time in the history of virtual
\nreality, or even in the history of teaching.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The scale of this<\/span><\/span> course is what sets it apart compared<\/span><\/span> to other \u201cin-VR\u201d courses. In addition to<\/span><\/span> having a relatively large number of stu<\/span><\/span>dents enrolled in the course, we also<\/span><\/span> had a large number of sessions taking<\/span><\/span> place in VR over time, many of which<\/span><\/span> were in a networked virtual environ<\/span><\/span>ment. To our knowledge, prior courses<\/span><\/span> that have used VR in an educational<\/span><\/span> setting have rarely accomplished all<\/span><\/span> three of these criteria.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n