EDUCAUSE | Presented at EDUCAUSE Annual Conferences, Second Life, and Instructional Technologies

Teaching Nurse Anesthesia in a Second Life Operating Room Simulation

drupal — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 18:28:49 -0500

An operating room simulation was developed in Second Life to teach KUMC Nurse Anesthesia students basic operating room procedures. This presentation will describe the design, development, usability testing, and outcomes of this simulation. It will also examine how to adapt our simulation method to teach procedural content in your courses.

Teaching and Learning in Second Life

drupal — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 08:52:33 -0500

This presentation will examine teaching techniques in virtual environments, particularly Second Life, from the perspectives of an instructor and instructional designer and demonstrate how a second-year nursing program successfully uses Second Life to teach clinical procedures, critical thinking, and decision making.

Assessing the Student Experience in Second Life

drupal — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 12:00:20 -0500

For several years, educational innovators have experimented with using virtual worlds such as Second Life to enhance student learning. Though many of these implementations seem successful, few have incorporated structured assessment. This panel brings together practitioners from four institutions that have conducted such assessments to discuss their results.

This session will be simulcast in Second Life.

Social Media and Education: The Conflict Between Technology and Institutional Education, and the Future

drupal — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 10:10:01 -0500

Today's technology enables users to form and join communities of common interest to learn and share information. In opposition to the privileged learning spaces of higher education, social media encourage learners to seek out their own answers and construct knowledge as a community rather than as individuals. Twitter, Flickr, Facebook, and Second Life offer new learning spaces, but how do they fit into the learning expectations of institutions?

Teaching and Learning Experiences in a User-Created Virtual World

drupal — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 09:49:43 -0600

Second Life is a user-created virtual world simultaneously played by thousands of people around the world. In this session, we’ll share our experiences of teaching in Second Life. Using the interaction combinations integration model we developed as a framework, we will describe our projects, outcomes, and recommendations.