Victoria Szabo, Program Director for Information Science + Information Studies, Arts & Sciences

Project description

This project will support the development and exploration of teaching and learning in Second Life. Objects are being developed and explored during the summer for use in Fall courses. In the Fall, Second Life will be used in Focus 99.09: Special Topics in Focus: Virtual Realities. Students will explore the tool to build a gallery environment consisting of work done in the four courses of the cluster. In the course of this project, the value of Second Life as a teaching and learning tool will be assessing in three specific areas:

• Second Life’s effectiveness as a project display medium
• Second Life’s value as a hands-on exploration of metaverses and virtual worlds
• Second Life’s as agent for collaborative work among students.

The Second Life environment for the class will be demonstrated to the Parent and Students Weekend fair in the Bryan Center and available as a semi-permanent gallery space for others to visit when the semester ends. Second Life will continue to be explored in several courses during Spring 2008.

Project start date: 5/4/2007
Funding awarded: $ 2,500

More information:

Focus Cluster on Virtual Realities

Course descriptions

Project wiki

Second Life at Duke

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