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The Virtual Campus of the Future: Stimulating and Simulating Civic Actions in a Virtual World
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Bers, Marina; Chau, Clement – Journal of Computing in Higher Education, 2010
This paper presents a pre-orientation program for incoming college students, Active Citizenship through Technology (ACT), that engaged students in civic dialogue early in their academic experience while fostering a long-term peer support network. It leveraged youth's interest in Internet technologies to engage them in civic discussions and…
Descriptors: Citizenship, Educational Technology, Virtual Classrooms, College Freshmen