Each month we monitor and select from a number of information technology and instruction technology sources that come to our attention and provide brief notes for electronic dissemination to educators. Unsworth demonstrated a MOO-based World Wide Web server that allows scholars, editors, and reviewers to engage collaboratively in networked publishing over the Internet.
Players can communicate easily with each other in real time.
Although originating in the computer game environment, MUDs and MOOs also have potential for use in learning activities. Ventana Press, 1995. Ventana's Internet Virtual Worlds Quick Tour Online Companion contains pointers to a number of MOOs and MUDs on the Internet. It is concerned with all aspects of the production and publication of electronic journals, particularly those managed by academics themselves. Steve Fuller, professor of sociology and social policy at Durham University, argues that works will not be published as freely or cheaply as Steve Harnad suggests and that a sharp eye needs to be kept on the changing political economy of electronic communications.