This is a concept for a language learning game. Idea is to use voice and video for an immersible experience. Goal for the gamer is to teach meet and greet skills that are very basic for conversation in some other culture.

This is… amazing, just… wow! I am attending RPI this fall as a freshmen, and i plan on going into mechanical engineering and design. As soon as i saw this video i was literally agape and on the edge of my seat! I gave the link to all the other people going to RPI next year including Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and other Mech. Eng.
I have a Nintendo Wii, and an extra controller, so you can count on me bringing this set up to my Dorm room next year. With the interactive 2-point white-board alone i can think of either great fun or great ways to improve on how I do my work. Can this be set up to a CAD software or similar software for 3-D design?

Honestly Mr. Lee, I have so much respect for you right now. First for realizing this could be done, second for developing the software to make it happen, and last but far from least, for making the information widely distributed, the software free to everyone, and as you said, opening the field of research to such a broad range of people. You certainly deserve that standing ovation. Bravo!!!

Rice University professor Richard Baraniuk explains the vision behind Connexions, his open-source, online education system. It cuts out the textbook, allowing teachers to share and modify course materials freely, anywhere in the world.

I think that this is a great idea. I was always hoping that textbooks were going to be the next thing that would be shared since education is the most important aspect of a person’s life and should not have to be so costly. If everyone has an opportunity to learn and share their knowledge with others in an open source format that is only better for the world as a whole. Unfortunately, many universities still use textbooks and schools rather not use open source because they make a lot of money from selling textbooks to students. Thus, students have to look all over the web for cheap textbooks and places to sell their textbooks. I just want to mention a website called skoolboy.com that does both, you can list your textbooks for free and find cheap textbooks as well as other things that college students need like cellphones they might have lost, and laptops that were stolen or are broken. its a new site but i think its worth checking out.