Usage of Second Life
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Personal
Second Life has been built to provide a massive multi-user online social environment, in which people can meet, chat, flirt, argue and generally behave much as they might do in Real Life.
Commercial
Education
- Outreach to off-campus & distance learning students
- Courses
- Faculty meetings
- Digital media department experimentation
- Co-operation and information sharing between education institutions
- Co-operation and information sharing with libraries
- Blending visual, kinetic and auditory learning
Second Life achieves at least 2 purposes:
- It provides a large Community of Interest
- It allows a community to convene without incurring significant cost.
SLoodle describes itself as a virtual environment learning system, combining the Second Life virtual environment and the Moodle learning system. This whitepaper talks about putting a Second Life "metaverse" skin on learning management systems.
Libraries
- New channel to library users
- Outreach
- Co-operation and information sharing between libraries
- Co-operation and information sharing with educational institutions
Second Life achieves at least 2 purposes:
- It provides a large Community of Interest
- It allows a community to convene without incurring significant cost.
[Category: Second Life]
