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The Next Best Thing to Recess: Teaching Biology in Second Life: February 18, 2010 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Southwest Regional Conference 2010
This session will discuss a nonmajors genetics class held entirely in world in Second Life. Most of the course content is presented through a guided series of virtual experiments. Students can work…
Educational Virtual Environment Methodologies: February 18, 2010 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Southwest Regional Conference 2010
By providing faculty theoretical frameworks using Bloom's taxonomy, experiential learning, transformational learning, reflective learning, and social learning/inclusion methodologies applied t…
Does Your Campus Need a Second Life? Take Two: February 25, 2009 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Southwest Regional Conference 2009
How do you convert the success of three multidisciplinary, multiuniversity, and multinational courses in Second Life into a full-fledged, university-wide commitment to this virtual world? Experienc…
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 …
Does Your Campus Need a Second Life?: February 21, 2008 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Southwest Regional Conference 2008
Our presentation will detail one university's experience with employing Second Life, from the initial interest and awareness stage through implementing an upper-level undergraduate course with…
Student Research Symposium in Second Life: February 21, 2008 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Southwest Regional Conference 2008
This session will describe the planning, development, and implementation of a virtual campus in Second Life to supplement Texas Woman's University's annual Student Creative Arts and Resea…
Beyond Course Management Systems: Second Life: August 7, 2007
What technologies will follow the success of course management systems? This presentation will discuss the roles of virtual worlds and mobile devices in faculty-student interaction and learning. Le…
Second Life: The Educational Possibilities of a Massively Multiplayer Virtual World (MMVW): February 16, 2005 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Southwest Regional Conference 2005
Technical developments in MMVWs continue to advance dramatically. In this session, we will tour Second Life, a MMVW created by each user and simultaneously played by hundreds of people around the w…

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