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Second Life For Virtual Education
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Second Life
Using Second Life as a learning environment
Educating Faculty to Teach in Second Educating Faculty to Teach in Second LifeLife
Who is in Second Life?
• Individual “Players”• Educators• Small Businesses• Large Businesses• Non-profit organizations• Political actors
Why Use Immersive Why Use Immersive Education?Education?
Because in-person isn’t possible, practical, or desirable
Because educators and students need the ability to connect & communicate
Because the learning experience will benefit greatly
Because it simulates BEING THERE.
•Second Life (SL) is a world that tries to reproducethe real one, including the development of rules and even its own economy.
Second Life
•People are represented by their avatars (their 3D representations) and they communicate through chat (voice or written text), notecards, their profiles or Instant Messages (IM).
Heart Murmur Sim aims to providea place for cardiac training where the participants
can visit virtual patients, listen to their cardiacrhythms and make a diagnosis.
The goals of this island are to stimulate scientificdiscussion and reflection upon climate issues and, at the same time, allow participants to engage insimulations that wouldn’t be possible in the realworld.
Figure
National Oceanographic and AtmosphericAdministration (NOAA) island
Educational Institutions
• Harvard University,• Leicester University, • Universidade de Aveiro, Porto, and• Open University (UK), among others,
Have their own educational spaces in SL where they deliver some courses in several fields.
Main subject areas
• Health and medicine• Nursing training• Health and safety training• Physics simulations e.g.
wind turbines• Information science
theory• Art and fashion
• Legal training• Theatre and drama• Computer science
programming• Crime scene training• Languages, esp. Spanish• Midwifery
Webber, 2010
Educational Institutions
The Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society delivers a course to create and present:
• Internet and Web 2.0 tools such as Wikis e blogs.
• The students also meet in-world at Berkman Island.
Education
Virtual Hajj
Muinjij native American island
Teeside Virtual factory
Uncle D story quest on HIV/AIDS
FSU Holocaust
Entrepreneurship and Second Life
• Why Second Life and entrepreneurship?– Second Life is designed with rules that allow an
economy to operate– Players own the items they create; that is, they
have property rights– This has resulted in the development of a vibrant
economy with a large number of entrepreneurs
•With the help of building tools and scripting, shebuilt laboratories where the students can participate in virtual experiences and produce data for analysis.•The students can also interact with experts inGENETICS to broaden their knowledge.
The Texas Wesleyan University has got the GenomeIsland
•Develops professional training inICTs, management, sales and customer support.
•It uses SL for synchronous classes and on-demandtraining through audio, video or podcasts resources
Thomson Netg Training
Co-surfed side by side
Answered a lot of questions.
Traveled to a nursing sim, participated in a conversation, befriended other nursing educators, and JOINED A GROUP!
Webber 2010
Students present their conference highlights, in their Second Life homes in the Educational Informatics village
Second Life is a valuable as one of the environments that can be used
for teaching & learning
and (if you want) you can also have
fun!