1. The Business School of the Future At this school students can get to know some life concepts through the online game. That allows students to acquire some necessary skills from the online games such as the World of Warcraft ©2011 The Business School of the Future: ValentinaAlexeeva, Mary Vinokurova, Eugene Bulyatkin. Team: One Life for Million Ideas

2. Learn how to… 1. Be the leader in YOUR company as it is in the guilds in the World of Warcraft 2. Earn virtual money and exchange them into the real. Or speculate in currencies as you do on the FOREX club.

3. Learn how to… 3. Work as a team and support your co-workers and partners 5. Understand your role in the team or the corporation 6. Cope with your fears, failures, and insults 4. Understand your partners and their way of thinking. Get to know how to deal with different cultures due to the international context of the game

4. Fun+ Meaning=2030 PEOPLE SAY: -That is ridiculous. - Hard to do, but if it comes true, it will change the world - I don’t think it works but for sure it is something new You also have a possibility to work during the game. While earning virtual money, your character is synchronized with the robot in the reality who does exactly the same you do while working (Fisher, waiter, plumber, barman, hairdresser, etc.) Are we afraid of difficulties?

5. James Witte Questions for James C. Witte: 1. What is your personal vision of the world in 2030? 2. Will the critical concept of education have changed by 2030? 3. Will education become more available to people all around the world? 4. Will the virtual worlds make our real world better? Why? 5. What is the possibility to use world-known games such as World of WarCraft for educational purposes? 6. Can so-called Avatars that repeat all actions after the people they are connected to one day become a part of the real world, but not virtual? 7. Will the education in the virtual world be useful both for students and for universities? James C. Witte, Ph.D. Professor of Sociology & Director of Center for Social Science Research, George Mason University Some facts James Witte is a recognized expert at sociology and Internet technologies who has conducted a great number of researches on various issues: from the influence of the Internet on the demographics to the virtual worlds!