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Content aside, I love the idea of visualizing various skills and their relationships in this World of Warcraft - like style! Nicely done.

Khan Academy could be taking notes and inspiration to replace their current Knowledge Map:

https://www.khanacademy.org/exercisedashboard

Perhaps this would be a little over the top with gamification, but it could be cute to have a character sheet for every student with their level, experience points, skills and talent specs listed out in tabs. It's fun to look at Online Education as being essentially an MMORPG.



>t's fun to look at Online Education as being essentially an MMORPG.

Hell yeah!

>have a character sheet for every student with their level, experience points, skills and talent specs listed out in tabs

Isn't that one of the goals of Khan Academy? Because I remember them saying that they were against grades and that every student deserved a specialized reprot of their skills abilities projects etc


MOOC → MMORPG, not a big difference, but a huge impact. Education should be more fun, less hostile/prison.




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