Deepthink: A Second Life Environment for Part-time Research Students at a Distance

Author

Rapanotti, L. ; Barroca, L. ; Vargas-Vera, M. ; Reeves, A.J.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput., Open Univ., Milton Keynes, UK

fYear

2010

fDate

5-7 July 2010

Firstpage

200

Lastpage

201

Abstract

This paper reports on the design of a Second Life campus for a new innovative post-graduate research programme at the Open University, UK, a world leader in supported distance higher education. The programme, launched in October 2009, is a part-time Master of Philosophy (MPhil) to be delivered at a distance, supported by a blend of synchronous and asynchronous Internet technologies. This paper briefly discusses the pedagogical thinking behind the Second Life campus, and the way the implementation was designed to meet the pedagogy. The paper also reports on the outcome of an early evaluation we have conducted.

Keywords

Internet; distance learning; vocational training; Internet technology; UK; distance higher education; innovative post graduate research programme; open university; part-time research student; pedagogical thinking; second life campus; second life environment; Computer aided instruction; Conferences; Internet; Lead; Second Life; Second Life; distance learning; research degree;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT), 2010 IEEE 10th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Sousse

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-7144-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICALT.2010.61

Filename

5571246