Seminars in Second Life: Teacher and Student Views
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Virtual Worlds are largely adopted as places where students can perform normal class activities, including lectures. In this paper we describe a didactical experience conducted in Second Life during an Italian-Spanish collaboration which occurred in spring 2010. We proposed to a group of university students that they make use of a virtual world for carrying out the presentations of the projects of one the courses they were enrolled on. The collected results revealed that Virtual Worlds can effectively support distance lectures, both from the perspective of the audience and from the one of the lecturer, although it is advisable to equip the environment with features for carrying out the lectures in a more natural way.
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