Lessons Learned Implementing an Educational System in Second Life

Abstract

Second Life is an online 3D virtual environment that offers interesting potential for use in education due to its widespread availability, flexibility, and its use of standard platforms and input devices. Given a broad design brief for a nine-week masters’ student project of using Second Life for education, we explored a range of potential ways of using the environment, and designed and implemented a 3D turtle-graphics system. In this paper we present our findings together with a reflection on both the constraints that Second Life places on the range of educational uses worth pursuing, and the specific issues likely to be faced by researchers creating other such systems.

Contributors

Richard Stephen Clavering

Andrew Robert Nicols

Conference

Publication date: September 2007

Publication date (Print): September 2007

Pages: 1-4

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Computing Department

Lancaster University

InfoLab21, LA1 4WA

Computing Department

Lancaster University

InfoLab21, LA1 4WA

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Article

DOI: 10.14236/ewic/HCI2007.51

Copyright statement: © Richard Stephen Clavering et al. Published by BCS Learning and Development Ltd. Proceedings of HCI 2007 The 21st British HCI Group Annual Conference University of Lancaster, UK

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Conference name: Proceedings of HCI 2007 The 21st British HCI Group Annual Conference University of Lancaster, UK

Conference acronym: HCI

Conference number: 21

Conference location: Lancaster, UK

Conference date: 3 - 7 September 2007

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: British HCI Group Annual Conference

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Series title: Electronic Workshops in Computing