VR can be considered as one of several modes of perceiving reality. The authors now examine their research development over this time period. A qualitative extrapolation about the future implications for education with an immediate path and an incremental path to follow is discussed.
Educators follow both paths all the time, each path contributing to the other.
The empirical discoveries we have made over the 12-month association, raise some current research questions. AussieMOO was our meeting place, where this paper was created using the communication style of the written conversation. There is a contrast in styles between Charles Sturt University and its institutional, top-down approach to distance learning versus the more participative, horizontal image at Paideia. Malcolm McAfee and Ken Eustace embarked on a journey, one year ago, to develop the on-line resources for the virtual classroom at Charles Sturt University and for Paideia, a university on the Internet offering Bachelor, Masters level degrees in Liberal and Policy Studies, as well as a Ph.D for more advanced work. He has worked extensively over a long career in computing and alternative education at several tertiary institutions such as Davidson, Stanford and California State University.