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Exploring Ideas and Possibilities of Second Life as an Advanced E-Learning Environment

Exploring Ideas and Possibilities of Second Life as an Advanced E-Learning Environment
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Author(s): Bo Kyeong Kim (Jeonju University, Republic of Korea)and Youngkyun Baek (Korea National University of Education, Republic of Korea)
Copyright: 2010
Pages: 17
Source title: Handbook of Research on Practices and Outcomes in E-Learning: Issues and Trends
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Harrison Hao Yang (State University of New York, USA)and Steve Chi-Yin Yuen (University of Southern Mississippi, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-788-1.ch010

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Abstract

Web 2.0 is changing the paradigm of using the Internet which is affecting the e-learning paradigm. In this chapter, e-learning 2.0 and its strategies will be described for net generation. E-learning 2.0 was followed by introduction of Second Life as an advanced e-learning environment. Flexibility, strong social networking, and residents’ creative activities of Second Life allow unlimited potential to educators when they apply various educational principles to designing a learning environment. The authors assert that Second Life is a classroom built in 3D cyber space. Some cases that Second Life was used for a new e-learning environment are also presented. The 3D virtual classroom context is attractive to the educators with the same appearance as real life as well as prepared educational elements which can be built into Second Life. Exploring ideas and possibilities of Second Life provides alternatives to make up for the limits in the current e-learning environment.

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