Virtual Worlds and Social Work Education: Potentials for “Second Life”

Immersive Education in Social Virtual Worlds

Second Life and other Virtual Worlds: A Roadmap for Research

Virtual worlds like Second Life are becoming important tools for, among other activities, socialization, social networking, entertainment, collaboration, and business development. These environments offer information systems researchers a unique opportunity to study how these environments are built and managed by operators, how they are used and misused by users, and the impact that they have o...

Teaching Risk with Virtual Worlds - Experience and Lessons Learnd in Second Life and Other Virtual Worlds

We discuss and demonstrate how Virtual Worlds available at the University of Bedfordshire have been used to teach Project Management using a ‘situated learning’ approach. In particular we have a closer look on the aspect of teaching risk management and identify how different aspects of risk are addressed in a variety of implementations of Virtual Worlds, namely Second Life, a Virtual World prov...

Higher Education in Virtual Worlds: Teaching and Learning in Second Life

In this new edited collection Wankel and Kingsley have assembled a collage of serious studies focusing on the efficacy of Second Life as a viable learning environment. These studies range from a very narrow focus, such as how an instructor avatar stands, smiles, and gestures to engage other student avatars, to very broad studies that measure students’ ability to not only design business solutio...

The fairyland of Second Life: Virtual social worlds and how to use them

Roughly 15 years ago, in 1992, United States author Neal Stephenson published a novel titled Snow Crash. In this book Stephenson tells the story of a protagonist named Hiroaki Protagonist, who physically lives in Los Angeles during the early 21 century but who mentally spends most of his time in a three-dimensional virtual world called the Metaverse. He, as well as other people, access this Met...