Learning in Second Life - the learner's eye view - Second Lif...

Daliah first came to Second Life in February, directly as a result of her course, where it was a required element. She was a little worried at first, not about learning in Second Life, but because she thought it would be seen as frivolous - "like MySpace" to potential future employers and she was a little scared because she felt she didn't know what SL was all about and what the people would be like.
Daliah had prepared a list of benefits she'd seen from learning in SL:

1. Students could always find someone in SL whether it was another student or professor.
2. SL made it easy to keep up with the assignments. Everything students needed for class could be found in SL as well so if you couldn't make class, you could still do the work and hand it in on time.
3. SL was not just an educational tool it helped students learn more about computers than any computer class we had taken in the past because they were actually using them directly and intensively.
4. SL gave us the opportunity to chat with students from other colleges as well as fellow classmates so we could all help each other, and to research people from all over the world.
5. Students could meet at one location. There was no need to exchange phone numbers or e-mail address. Using open chat everyone can communicate with every other student there which enabled much better working together and helping each other when you got stuck because you could get a range of views very quickly.
6. Students did their homework on notecard and sent them to the professor who could correct them and send them back right away, which made it easy to do corrections.

Although, in theory, these students could have met regularly at college, in practice their varied schedules meant it was easier to meet in SL from home at a time that was more convenient for them.

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