Second Life is much in evidence at Online Educa Berlin this year, much as I expected. Not only was our panel session - along with Helen Keegan, Graham Attwell, Steven Warburton, David White and Dai Griffith - very well attended with almost 300 delegates present in Potsdam I - but yesterday, an inspiring keynote by Sian Bayne, of the University of Edinburgh, demonstrated clearly to all those present how SL could be successfully deployed to create purposeful and open virtual learning spaces for Higher Education. Bayne was eloquent in her description of the process, highlighted many of the pedagogical issues that had emerged from creation of the space, and even demonstrated a live in-world visit.
Other sessions have also featured Second Life and have focused on other Multi-User Virtual Learning Environments - World of Warcraft has been featured, and the delegates here are under no allusion that MUVEs and other 3-D Virtual worlds are going to be hot agenda items for future e-learning conferences. Our little team are certainly planning some more jaunts into this field and will be preparing papers for other events in the coming year.
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