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Educational opportunities in Second Life with a focus on Cooperative Extension.
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Real Life Education in Second Life
Ohio State UniversityMay 29, 2008
Metaverse Roadmap
Virtual Worlds
A virtual world is a computer-based simulated environment intended for its users to inhabit and interact via avatars.
Mirror Worlds
Mirror worlds are informationally enhanced virtual models or “reflections” of the physical world.
Coming Thing
In five years, business versions of online virtual worlds like Second Life will be just as important to commerce as the Web is today.
-- Forrester
Coming Thing
By the end of 2011, 80 percent of active Internet users (and Fortune 500 enterprises) will have a “second life”-- Gartner Group
CES Educational Spaces
• Morrill Island - mainland grid• Bailey Island - teen grid• EduIsland - Alliance Library
System
Second Life Education
• Mirror world of classroomsoTraditional distance learning
• Using the worldoSL skills
• Virtual learning environments
Second Life Advantages
• Immersive• Collaborative (not competitive)• Creative/Expressive • Social networking• Everything is built-in
Second Life Disadvantages
• Difficult to learn• Instable • Emergent• Uncomfortable aspects• Proprietary
More Information
• SLED - mailing list• SimTeach - wiki
Who’s Doing What?
Cooperative Extension
• Facebook • Round tables• Inworld meet-ups• Collaborate wiki
Cooperative Extension SL
Discussion