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SLCC 2007 Education Proceedings Published

CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) : Aug 23, 2007 11:04am

Just in time for this weekend’s Second Life Community Convention, the proceedings (papers) for the sessions in the Education Track have just been made available. Kudos to Jeremy Kemp and Daniel Livingstone for what must have been some monumental editing.

Weighing in at 188 pages, this is one perhaps to read electronically, or at least, save a real tree and print a few select articles. Choosing “select” may be the hard part!

As noted in the introduction:

If by any chance you’ve seen last year’s proceedings, then the first thing you’ll notice about this volume is the size – almost three times the size of last year’s. This mirrors the staggering growth in the educational use of Second Life that has occurred in the last 12 months, as noted by Claudia and Pathfinder in the preface…

We hope that these proceedings provide a useful snapshot of the state of education in Second Life as it is today. Within these pages you can find exemplar case studies illustrating how institutional issues in establishing Second Life can be overcome and a number of examples showing how the platform is being adapted to support learning in a wide range of fields and with diverse groups of learners. The sciences and arts are both well represented, demonstrating the breadth of content and interest to be found in the Second Life educational community.

The Second Life education community itself is perhaps what makes events like this so special – that such a vibrant and friendly community can exist across continents and academic divisions says something special – and makes it a community that we are proud to be part of.

NOTE: The Proceedings are being updated- stay tuned; we will update links ASAP.

See the full SLCC 2007 Education Track schedule:
http://www.simteach.com/wiki/index.php?title=SLCC_2007_Schedule

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