: Education

A list of potentially useful resources for educators interested in Second Life, Distance Education and Edu-Blogging. (Plus some other little nuggets of information.)

Links for Educators

‘Engaging with Second Life: Real Education in a Virtual World by Ben Salt, Clare Atkins & Leigh Blackall. October, 2008

Learning together apart: Distance education in a virtual world by Kim Holberg & Isto Huvila (2008)

Using Second Life to Enhance Teaching and Learning, Learning Abstracts. 2007

Higher Education in Second Life:Fall 2007 List of links from Ray Schroeder, Director, Office of Technology-Enhanced Learning, University of Ilinois at Springfield.

Educators explore ‘Second Life’ online - posted on CNN.com in 2006

Comm Tech Lab. Michigan State University, Carrie Heeter’s web page. (Check out her publications at the bottom of the page.)

Students vs Second Life and Students vs Second Life: Round 2 Two interesting articles by The Metaverse Journal analyzing the educational possibilities of Second Life. (The article could be called Millenials v Generation X, says this Baby Boomer!)

Part 2 of The metaverse Journal

Distance Education

Moodle
Moodle – Course Management System (CMS) As described by Wikipedia Moodle is a ‘free software e-learning environment’.
MoodleDocs – Moodle documentation
Learning the Moodle Mambo – Moodle workshop created by Miguel Guhlin. He provides lots of resources and links, if you are learning how to use Moodle this is a great place to visit!

Education & Blogging

Learning Curve: a Columbus State Instructional Technology Blog

Some useful nuggets

Syllabus Tips
Tools for Teaching – Creating a syllabus by Barbara Gross Davis, University of California, Berkeley