A MUVEing Experience: an instructional perspective on Second Life
Colleen Carmean
School of Global Management & Leadership
Arizona State University
Research: A look at the landscape
20% of VW inhabitants believe/claim that they live there, and only eat, sleep here.
Synthetic Worlds (Castranova, 2006)
Research: A look at the landscape
Our world is not on their affective map. It is no longer where their community abides.
E Castranova, 2006
A look at the landscape: Kurzweil
Ray Kurzweil claims this immigration will become more pronounced, in numbers and in feeling of presence there within 5 years.
What if we met them there?
•http://www.flickr.com/photos/nmc-campus/427626589/
What if we met them there?
How might this change teaching?
Learning?
Identity?
Engagement?
EDT 598: Evaluating emerging technologies (hybrid)
EDT 598: hybrid doctoral course
We explored trends, usability, meaning and affordances of Second Life for teaching and learning
Second Life
13,000,000+ million citizens38,000 on at any one time~30% have PhDs
What we found
130+ campuses up, numerous more ‘under construction’
•http://www.flickr.com/photos/marksimpkins/142984795/
Tradition often determines design outcomes
•http://www.flickr.com/photos/89376128@N00/380907239/
Instructor issues
Inability to age gracefullyInappropriate presence Back chatterGetting started
How does one teach there?
Higher education now building facsimile and imaginary campuses without codes of behavior, conduct, expectationsorunderstanding of pedagogical potential
Who is designing the learning experience?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/89376128@N00/380919210/
Rio Salado Community College (AZ)
Learning spacesMeeting spacesAVATARS of instructors and
administrators
Designed by young men in Canada unconnected to learning outcomes ($175,000)
Linda Thor, President, RSCC (Sloan 2008)
Learning Spaces by design
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nmc-campus/297008520/
Teaching by design?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nmc-campus/260218800/
Deeper Learning
SocialActiveContext-drivenFosters ownershipRequires engagement
(Carmean & Haefner, 2002)
What next for the instructional (design) community?
SLED : Second Life Educatorshttps://lists.secondlife.com/cgi-bin/mailman/l
istinfo/educators
New Media Consortium (nmc.org)
My contact info:Ariel Surya aka [email protected]
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