Please join us in a workshop on Learning and Research in Second Life on October 7, 2009 in Milwaukee at Internet Research 10.0 (http://ir10.aoir.org/).
Upon request by researchers and educators around the world, there is a new
From the abstract of an article "Learning together apart: Distance education in a virtual world" (citation) by myself and my colleague Kim Holmberg published in First Monday:
We have been working with my colleague Kim Holmberg on developing Second Life based courses and research at our home university. The feedback from the classes held so far has been unexpectedly positive. The environment does clearly offer interesting avenues in higher education. Some coverage of the project can be found in Swedish in the
(né Isto Vatanen)
PD, forskarassistent
Ph.D., Post-Doc Research Fellow
Department of ALM
Uppsala University
Ph.D., adjunct researcher
Department of Information Studies
Åbo Akademi University
Isto Huvila is researcher and lecturer working on management and organisation of what we know and how we know in contexts ranging from social media to more traditional arenas of learning and working. My special areas of expertise are virtual worlds, Web 2.0, archives, libraries, museums and cultural heritage.
