Virtual worlds like Second Life and Lively beta by Google, on the other hand, are three-dimensional (3D) environments accessible over the internet through a high-speed connection. At first, they feel like games, but after some time exploring you begin to realize that it’s not all stimulation: It’s intuitive, interactive, collaborative, and social. These virtual worlds have not only begun to attract attention from companies seeking better conferencing tools, considerable attention has been delivered by educators who believe that virtual worlds have a place in the educational discourse through ‘immersive learning’ - worlds that can offer course content in a virtual setting in different ways that students can immerse themselves in, rather than requiring the student to be adaptive to the material.
Eric G. Young on 30 Dec 12This is the homepage of my collection of curated links, focusing on online tools and resources for information management, productivity, education and some other areas. There are almost 1,300 links in this collection, gathered over almost 2 years' time, and I could continue on. I am sharing this with the Diigo community because I believe it will be especially helpful to anyone in academia. Over the next weeks or months, I hope to highlight smaller, more manageable sub-categories so that Diigo users can focus in on just those links that are of interest.
