Duke University School of Nursing in Second Life
January 25, 2012 by
Filed under online nursing degree
We have built a Second Life® infrastructure that allows faculty and students experiential learning, role-playing, and promotes social interaction, in a collaborative environment in our distance education program. It furthermore supports immersion and presence, allowing real-time teaching and discussion that enhances the mentor/mentee relationship in a simulated learning environment. With virtual environments, we now have the option to create social and professional relationships which have been the missing component of distance learning.
amazing
great!
Very interesting!!
wow! I am impressed and surprised that I would be…go figure
This is an interesting concept. We provide information to nurses & potential nurses on nursing education and have recently seen a large boom in online training environments in the healthcare sector. This Second Life infrastructure is a very interesting expansion to the online training mode. Very exciting for nurse education distance learning!
This is very good. It’s a bit light-hearted at times, but it hits a lot of the key points on why virtual environments are useful for simulation and learning. My only criticism is the comparing early on “second life vs real life” – as if doing something online isn’t real. A better dichotomy would be “physical vs virtual”.
omg wow
This is great to see.
this is so cool
nice
WOW
Has there been any research and/or publications on this? Where can I find it?
Thanks for posting this.