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Distance and Flexible Education

Second Life provides an excellent platform for flexible delivery and online education. Students and facilitators can come together in-world to share information and resources via slides, audio and video, engaging in discussions, presentations, group projects and explorations.

Explore the projects below or Return to the Educational Uses of Second Life Homepage.


Cyber One: Law in the Court of Public Opinion

Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society presented a course on the creation and delivery of persuasive argument in the new integrated media space constituted by the Internet and other new technologies in 2007. The course uses Web 2.0 tools such as wikis and blogs and extension students meet in Second Life on Berkman Island (SLurl).

During the course, the class held mock trials in-world, including one based on the real life situation of Josh Wolf who was jailed for refusing to turn over videotapes he recorded during a street demonstration. Watch a YouTube video about the mock trial.

For further information watch the course introduction on the YouTube video - Harvard Extension School in Second Life, or a tour of the Harvard Extension School in Second Life on blip.tv or get more information on the website - CyberOne: Law in the Court of Public Opinion.


Second Life Writing: ENG104 at Ball State University

Sarah Robbins (Intellagirl Tully in Second Life) of Ball State University used Second Life to teach an English class focussed on writing for academic research in 2006. The course was a hybrid course with at least half of the class time spent online, based at the Middletown Sim, which is sponsored by Ball State's Center for Media Design Educational Environments. Visitors were welcome to observe the class.

English 104 applied the fundamentals of rhetoric to the research process, introducing students to methods of research. The many communities of Second Life provided students with rich opportunites for observation, research and interaction with other cultures, as well as many interview subjects for use in their writing.

Read more in the article Ball State students immersed in virtual world to study cultures or on the class website ENG104 in Second Life.

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