MOOs and MUDs

MOO stands for MUD, Object-Oriented, and MUD stands for Multi-User Domain. Originally designed as a form of the Dungeons and Dragons game, developed for multi-users on the Internet, MUDs and MOOs have proliferated and found a comfortable home in education.

This site is not designed to be a site for definitive information on MOOs and MUDs. However, you will find some interesting (I hope) and useful links compiled here. Feel free to browse.

Map of MOOtiny For information on educational use of MOOs, including help with MOO commands and a list of selected MOOs, see the Center for Teaching Enhancement Workshop on Synchronous Communication at http://www.cas.usf.edu/english/walker/papers/cte/cte.html.

For more information on MOOs, visit Jeff Galin's MOO Central at http://139.182.93.107/jrgst7/MOOcentral.html or see "The Lost Library of MOO" which has now been found at http://www.hayseed.net/MOO/. Another useful source of information is the book, High Wired: On the Design, Use, and Theory of Educational MOOs edited by Cynthia Haynes and Jan Rune Holmevik (Ann Arbor: U of Mich. P, 1998). See the book's Web site at http://lingua.utdallas.edu/hw/encore.html. For information on MOO and MUD client software, see "Client Software for MUDs and/or MOOs" at http://ebbs.english.vt.edu/mudmoo.clients.html