Second Life

What is the potential of virtual worlds?

In the E-learning unit at the University of Southern Denmark, we believe that virtual worlds, such as Second Life, will come to play a role in teaching and learning in the future. Virtual worlds give participants an increased feeling of prescence and enable many different types of communication and interaction. In this way, virtual worlds differ from typical e-learning platforms. However, it is important to find out what types of learning that can be supported and what specific teaching and learning acitivitities that can be carried out in virtual worlds.

SDU participates in the EU project AVATAR - Added Value of teAching in a virTuAl woRld. Click here to read more.

What are virtual worlds?
Read more.

Experiments in Second Life.
At the University of Southern Denmark, we are in the process of investigating how Second Life can be used in teaching to support the learning of our students. Read more about our project here.

Why deal with Second Life at all in regard to teaching and learning?
Study various suggestions of how to use Second Life in teaching here. Best practice examples will be added as the activities in our Second Life project are carried out and evaluated.

SDU has been present in Second Life with its own virtual campus since the summer of 2007. Read the story here.