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Best Practices for Using Second Life for Teaching and Learning: November 4, 2009 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2009 Annual Conference
How do I use Second Life in my class? Is it effective in meeting my pedagogical goals? What are students' impressions of Second Life? These are common questions asked by educators that will be…
Med School, High Tech: July 23, 2009

New medical schools are launching curriculums with more use of simulation and more social science -- and many established schools are moving in that direction, too. …
Teaching in Virtual Worlds (Second Life): January 7, 2009 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference 2009
Many educators are exploring how they can use Second Life and other virtual world environments to teach online courses or to augment regular courses with online materials. This presentation will ex…
ASTR202, Exploring Life in the Universe: September 15, 2008

© 2008 Adrienne Gauthier and Christopher Impey EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 43, no. 5 (September/October 2008) ASTR202, Exploring Life in the Universe Adrienne Gauthier and Christopher Imp…
Envisioning the Educational Possibilities of User-Created Virtual Worlds: April 1, 2008

Educational games and simulations can engage students in higher-level cognitive thinking, such as interpreting, analyzing, discovering, evaluating, acting, and problem solving. Recent technical a…
Teaching and Learning in Second Life: March 31, 2008 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Western Regional Conference 2008
This panel discussion examines both the process and product of teaching in Second Life from the perspectives of instructors and an instructional designer. Participants will see how instructors use …
Using Computer-Simulated Case-Based Scenarios to Improve Learning: March 18, 2008 | A session at the ELI 2008 Online Spring Focus Session
An online virtual case-based management system was developed to provide an interactive learning portal using simulated case scenarios, collaborative learning, decision support, and real-time assess…
The New Virtual Field Trip: A Perspective from NC State's Entomology Bug World: March 18, 2008 | A session at the ELI 2008 Online Spring Focus Session
The presentation will give a development perspective to incorporating a virtual field trip into a newly created online entomology course. The field trip in the traditional course took students to a…
Authentic Critical Reflection: Critique_It in Second Life: March 19, 2008 | A session at the ELI 2008 Online Spring Focus Session
Critique_It is an online virtual classroom critique system originally developed at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Croquet and ported to Second Life. The critique is a rudimentary instructio…
Making Learning Real: Turning Sim City into "Sim Science"!: March 18, 2008 | A session at the ELI 2008 Online Spring Focus Session
Current theories suggest that learning is facilitated when embedded in the context in which it will be used, but the constraints of the traditional classroom make implementing this difficult to imp…

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