The Indiana University School of Education has received a three-year, $1.8-million grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation to expand the virtual world Quest Atlantis, which is designed to help foster creativity, social responsibility, and compassion in children ages 9 thcoarse 12.
Watch Sasha Barab, the university director of the Center for Research on Learning and Technology, discuss Quest Atlantis.—Andrea L. Foster