Posted July 25th, 2008 by Padma "LadyLotus" Fuller
BigWorld is a company that specializes in creating what companies need for making learning MMOG's and virtual worlds. They have hired Adam Shaw as the Education Program Manager in order to bring these games/worlds to teachers in 2009.
Virtual World News reported the following today:
Today BigWorld announced the appointment of Adam Shaw as BigWorld’s Education Program Manager, tasked with helping bring BigWorld's technology suite for MMOGs and virtual worlds to educators in 2009. The company is developing specialist resources and services for MMO learning games and virtual worlds with the aim of creating virtual environments suitable for interactions between hundreds of thousands of users instead of more limited numbers.
“I am pleased to have the opportunity to work with leading game educators to provide them with the resources to create MMOGs and Virtual Worlds," Shaw said in a statement. "The technology that will be made available will greatly enhance educator’s and student’s understanding of what commercial grade MMOG engines are about and also provide students with greater job prospects in this online age."