First and foremost you need to look at the Lost Library of MOO (http://www.hayseed.net/MOO/). Here's a spam of my stuff on MOOs and Education. I can send a last paper if anyone wants to email me. Nolan, J. (1995). "Research into Educational Computer Mediated Communication." http://achieve.utoronto.ca/tortoise/comps/comp3.html Nolan, J. (1995). "The I came, I Mooed, I logged out: Muds, MOOs, Mushes, and Moose." http://achieve.utoronto.ca/tortoise/moo.html Nolan, J. (1995). "Gowan's VEE: An application of Gowin's Vee Heuristic Model to Educational Research into Multi User Simulated Environments as a Mechanism for Applying the Story Model to Transformative and Holistic Learning Situations." http://achieve.utoronto.ca/tortoise/gowinMOO.html Nolan, J. (1995). "Lust for Life: A discussion which considers the possibility of applying ideas of Integrated Curriculum development with Moos." http://achieve.utoronto.ca/tortoise/holon.html Davie, L., Abeygunawardena, H., Davidson, K., Nolan, J. (May, 1998). "Universities, Communities, and Building Sites: An Exploration of Three On-line Systems." Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Educational Computing Organization of Ontario. http://jasonnolan.net/papers/ECOO98.html Nolan, J. (1998). "MOOkti: Helping teachers and students work together. SchoolNet Magazine. http://www.schoolnet.ca/revue/e/archives/spring98/article11.html Lynn Davie &Jason Nolan (1999) "DOING LEARNING: BUILDING CONSTRUCTIONIST SKILLS FOR EDUCATORS" http://jasonnolan.net/papers/doing.html Nolan, J. (April 14, 2000). "Vase: The Virtual Assignment Server Environment." Paper and online discussion presented at the Fifth Annual Teaching in the Community Colleges Online Conference, "A Virtual Odyssey." University of Hawaii, Hawaii. http://achieve.utoronto.ca/vase/ Nolan, J. (2001). "The Techneducator Effect: Colliding Technology and Education in the Conceptualization of Virtual Learning Environments." http://achieve.utoronto.ca/jason/dissertation.PDF Weiss, J. and Nolan, J. (2001) "Internet Literate: The Hidden and Null Curricula of the Internet" Paper presented at Teaching as if the World Matters, 2nd Annual Conference ( http://www.utoronto.ca/baitworm/ ), University of Toronto, May 11-15, 2001 http://jasonnolan.net/papers/baitworm2001.html Nolan, J. and Weiss, J. (2002) Learning Cyberspace: An Educational View of Virtual Community. Building Virtual Communities: Learning and Change in Cyberspace. Cambridge Unviersity Press. K. Ann Renninger and Wesley Shumar (Editors) . Cambridge: Cambridge U.P. (draft version at http://jasonnolan.net/papers/learning_cyberspace.html) Robbins-Sponaas, R. and Nolan, J. (In press) "MOOs: Polysynchronous Collaborative Virtual Environments" In Workplace Internet-Based Communication: Industry and Academic Perspectives. Pavel Zemliansky, and Kirk St. Amant eds. Idea Group. (I can get you a copy of this. Just email me.)