EDUCAUSE | Presented at EDUCAUSE Annual Conferences, Second Life, and Virtual Learning Community

Glimpses of Our IT Future: What's Green, Mobile, and Regulated All Over?

drupal — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 11:03:38 -0600

Come hear the outcomes of this year's Evolving Technologies Committee's research and join the discussion! Committee members will share their research on selected evolving technologies and operational trends. Topics will include virtual environments in academia, next-generation "green enterprise" computing, location-aware computing and unified/mobile communications developments, and business and regulatory process trends.

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.

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.