.Net meets E-Learning
ExtremeTech | at | by Mike
Microsoft Research's Learning Sciences & Technology division is building an experimental online-learning architecture based on .Net. While Microsoft hasn't gone so far as to label its Learning Experiencing Project (LearningXP) environment "Education.Net," it might as well have. Microsoft Research (MSR) is assembling a host of interfaces, virtual workspaces, simulation tools and gaming environments designed to transform distance learning. Microsoft is developing many of these elements in a way so as to expose them to users as Web services. To do this, MSR and a host of university and other educational partners are relying on Microsoft's .Net Framework, C# programming language, Passport Internet authentication system, SQL Server and Windows Media Player technologies.