Education in VWs

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Comment by Jesse Trahan on July 2, 2008 at 7:46am

My employer, Towson University in Maryland (USA) is interested in Second Life as a way to communicate, recruit, meet and teach.

Comment by Moonbeamdance Northmead on June 20, 2008 at 6:21am

Interested in the educational aspects of virtual worlds and its ability to walk hand in hand with librarianship. Glad to be a part of this group now. :-)

Comment by Dr.Hanan "VRider" Gazit on June 19, 2008 at 1:54pm

hi, its great 2 join in Edu in VW Group here!
I'll deliver a workshop "Using the Web3D for Higher Education" on Monday, 7th of July 2008.
The workshop will take place at MEITAL, the Inter-University Center for e-Learning (IUCEL), which assists Israeli institutions of higher education, universities and academic colleges in advancing the use of e-learning technologies and creates opportunities for institutional connections and collaboration among academic institutes in Israel.

Suggestions & ideas would be much appriciated. ty!-)

Comment by Mark Puterbaugh on May 26, 2008 at 4:52pm

Are there any Activeworlds Education Universe members in the group? Would like to make connections and see what you're building.

Comment by Birdie Newborn on May 24, 2008 at 10:33pm

Sorry, I'm a continent away from NYC (though I used to live there). Have fun.
Meanwhile, I'm initiating a project-based learning exercise in Second Life -- a summer camp -- and looking to poach some students, since I don't have a ready-made batch on hand. Any suggestions?

Comment by Daniel Livingstone on May 21, 2008 at 4:37am

@Adrian:
Eduserv have been publishing 'snapshots' of UK Higher Education activity in Second Life:
http://www.eduserv.org.uk/foundation/studies/slsnapshots

Currently it appears that around 1/2 of the Universities in the UK are active in Second Life to -some- degree.

Comment by Rocksie Slade on May 20, 2008 at 3:14pm

Hi everyone,
I just joined the group. I'm interested in any experiences you may have in using a virtual environment for training or staff development.

Comment by Laura Jaffrey on May 6, 2008 at 12:32pm

FYI that American Society for Training and Development has a class every Wednesday from 12-1pm EST.
Note for this week: "Come to this week's ASTD Weekly Meet-up to sign up for a slot to experience a real "live" SL auto-respond bot"
Search ASTD in SL. I'll try to be there tomorrow. Cheers.

Comment by David Grundy on May 5, 2008 at 4:42am

"If anybody has any information from UK side of things, would great to add them here too I think?"

Well, at Newcastle Business School we have a group of students on a teamwork and leadership skills undergraduate module who are involved in a live project with the charity group Tyneside Cynerians to develop a presence in Second Life leading to a possible charity event. I think little experiments are going on here and there across the board to be honest, so yes, it would be good to hear of more of them.

Comment by Robin on April 22, 2008 at 1:41am

It would be great to hear about education ventures in gaming.

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