Skip to main content

Home/ Education in Second Life/ Group items tagged learning and development

Rss Feed Group items tagged

hometuitionpudu

Home tuition pudu : Developments in Teaching and Learning - Site Title - 0 views

  •  
    "While maintaining academic and vocational needs, teacher should focus on various opportunities and improvement-focused vocational skills in home tuition pudu
Cathy Arreguin

GeoWorlds - Home - 0 views

  •  
    GeoWorlds - being developed by University Missouri Kansas City "innovative integration of collaborative virtual learning environments and problem-based pedagogy to engage students in Earth science while enhancing their problem-solving skills and content knowledge. The Teacher/Facilitators in each classroom will be trained in the problem-based approach with Earth science content is based in the national and state science education standards." Combines Second Life resources with online website resources
Steven Hornik

Innovate: Student Perceptions of a Course Taught in Second Life - 0 views

  • Virtual worlds, as digital learning objects appear to provide a space for constructivist learning at its best, facilitating more student engagement than the simple discussion boards comprising most online courses.
    • Steven Hornik
       
      A virtual world by itself can not be exptected to create engagement and contrasting virtual worlds with discusson boards is apples vs oranges. Each can serve its purpose and each can be engaging if developed an delivered properly, but alas the opposite is also true.
  • that students will become as motivated by virtual worlds as they are by video games.
    • Steven Hornik
       
      I would like to see the citation for video games being inhrently motivating, and motivated in what way? To play or to learn, they are different things.
  • ...2 more annotations...
  • Most lectures were given in the classroom, so those given in SL, hampered by the slowness of text chat versus face-to-face conversation, suffered by comparison. Many students had to be on campus anyway during scheduled online class activities, leading to situations in which students were text chatting while sitting next to one another in a computer lab.
    • Steven Hornik
       
      This is just a Duh statement, of course students are not going to want to use a virual world platform while they are together in an actual classroom - its contrived and serves no purposed other then the oft mentioned "we hope it motivates the students" but why would it? If you don't use a virual world platform to take advantage of its unique affordances then the outcomes acheived in this study should be expected.
  • understanding the validity and creative procedure for illustrating their papers in a three-dimensional environment
    • Steven Hornik
       
      Again, why use a virtual world for presenting papers in a face2face class?
block_chain_

Comparison on Smart Contract Platforms- Lightning Network, Raiden, Plasma and RIF Lumin... - 0 views

  •  
    If you are interested in learning about smart contract platforms and want to become a smart contract developer, you have landed on the right page. The article below explains the decentralized scalability of smart contracts platforms in detail.
Scott Kahler

Tutor.com - Become an Online Tutor - 0 views

  •  
    Tutor.com has been creating on demand homework help and tutoring services since 1998. Our tutors have completed over 2 million one-to-one tutoring sessions with students in grades 4-12. We offer a comprehensive training and certification program and ongoing professional development and support for all of our tutors.
Eloise Pasteur

Using virtual worlds for educating people in the medical field » ... - 0 views

  • Role-playing doctor inside Second Life? Faculty of Medicine at Imperial College London has developed a region in Second Life that aims to design game-based learning activities for delivery of virtual patients that can drive experiential, diagnostic, and role-play learning activities supporting patients’ diagnoses, investigations and treatment. One of my Twitter friends, Andrea Vascellari, thinks this is a “terrific example that demonstrates the value of virtual worlds like Second Life” and is interested in other folk’s thoughts after watching this video:
  •  
    A somewhat negative end, but information about teaching medicine in Second Life with a hard to hear video.
homeschoolonline

Social Anxiety Disorder and How Virtual High Schools can Help - 0 views

  •  
    A conventional school involves a lot of socializations, half of which might not be that productive! But there is a category of kids who develop a phobia while carrying out social interactions. This eventually leads to social anxiety disorder.
amazonsellerac

Buy Verified Facebook Business Manager - 100% Safe & Verified BM ... - 0 views

  •  
    Buy Verified Facebook Business Manager Introduction You probably already know what Facebook is if you're reading this, and you might even have a personal profile there. A Facebook business manager is what, though? This solution enables companies to develop and control their Facebook presence from a single location. What Is a Facebook Business Manager? Any company that wants to use Facebook needs a Facebook business manager. It's a platform that enables companies to set up and control their Facebook presence in a single location. It's a tool that enables companies to make and manage Facebook advertisements, pages, and apps all in one location. Additionally, it's a tool that enables companies to monitor their outcomes and assess their success. Buy Verified Facebook Business Manager
Eloise Pasteur

About - Virtual World Watch - 0 views

  • Virtual worlds in UK Higher and Further Education
  • Second Life is by far the most widely used virtual world in education.
  • Research underpinning the May 2008 snapshot revealed that over 80% of UK universities were developing or teaching within the Second Life virtual world.
  • ...1 more annotation...
  • A specific comment that is frequently repeated is that these reports have provided the only authoritative, reliable or comprehensive source of information on: The extent of virtual world use in UK universities. Which academics and institutions are using virtual worlds. What, exactly, virtual worlds are being used for. The reports have also been used by academics as proof or evidence that virtual worlds should at least be investigated more thoroughly as teaching and learning technologies.
‹ Previous 21 - 29 of 29
Showing 20 items per page