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[Time Published October 20, 2013 at 11:13AM]
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In today's world of burgeoning mobile technology and social media, disease is easier to track than ever. People tell their friends and family about a bad cold they've come down with via Facebook and Twitter. Their phones track their location and create a virtual map of places they've visited. That's part of what makes Moocdemic — a game tethered to a Penn State University course on infectious diseases — the perfect learning tool.
The massive open online course, or MOOC, is an eight-week class being taught through video lectures and its companion game. Moocdemic is available to anyone with an internet connection, regardless of whether or not you're enrolled in the course. Using a browser-based application, you create an account...
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[Source: http://www.polygon.com/2013/10/19/4843138/tracking-virtual-disease-across-the-world-with-moocdemic] | Image URL: http://cdn1.sbnation.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/21380429/bwtpvgscaaa8khk.png-large.0_cinema_720.0.png]
[Time Published October 20, 2013 at 11:13AM]
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In today's world of burgeoning mobile technology and social media, disease is easier to track than ever. People tell their friends and family about a bad cold they've come down with via Facebook and Twitter. Their phones track their location and create a virtual map of places they've visited. That's part of what makes Moocdemic — a game tethered to a Penn State University course on infectious diseases — the perfect learning tool.
The massive open online course, or MOOC, is an eight-week class being taught through video lectures and its companion game. Moocdemic is available to anyone with an internet connection, regardless of whether or not you're enrolled in the course. Using a browser-based application, you create an account...
Continue reading…
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[Source: http://www.polygon.com/2013/10/19/4843138/tracking-virtual-disease-across-the-world-with-moocdemic] | Image URL: http://cdn1.sbnation.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/21380429/bwtpvgscaaa8khk.png-large.0_cinema_720.0.png]
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