immersiveness

=Immersiveness= toc notes

General:
content is relevant to the students' interestsactivities build on existing knowledge.existing skills employed and built upon contributes to fulfilment of student needs and goals creation of new content enabled

For a virtual world, the following are important:

Gameplay
self-defined goals, so gameplay depends on how well the world can accomodate different goals growth of skills (level-up). built in rewards (freebie treasure for exploration).

Avatars
Ability to customize an avatar create clothing, animation, etc. easy, intuitive interface Realistic movements of the avatar and surrounding landscape and interactions with other avatars.

Landscape
laws of physics. realistic time and climate. natural scale to avatars.

Community:
variety of communication tools effective search facility to find people and places. spaces designed to facilitate groups and conversation activities to enhance conversation