1. What is the Second Life world?
Second Life is a 3D digital world imagined and created by its Residents.
The Second Life Grid enables students, educators, and businesses to create innovative environments for distance learning, computer-supported cooperative work, simulation, new media studies, and corporate training.
The Second Life Grid provides an opportunity to use simulation in a safe environment to enhance experiential learning, allowing individuals to practice skills, try new ideas, and learn from their mistakes. The ability to prepare for similar real-world experiences by using the Second Life Grid’s tools for simulation has unlimited potential.
Students and educators can work together on the Second Life Grid from anywhere in the world as part of a globally networked virtual classroom environment. Using the Second Life Grid as a supplement to traditional classroom environments also provides new opportunities for enriching an existing curriculum. Many universities and educational institutions are already using the Second Life Grid, and you can find an updated list of them here.
The future of education is best predicted by inventing it.
June 9, 2008 at 1:39 pm |
[...] it has grown explosively and today is inhabited by millions of Residents from around the globe. Learn about Second Life and then explore it if you dare….it can become very habit forming. 31: web 2.0 Online [...]