DUBAI — Dubai Women’s College (DWC) has opened a new campus in Second Life where students can explore unique virtual world learning opportunities.
Founded in 2003 by Linden Lab, Second Life is a three-dimensional virtual world which has been gaining significant recognition among international well-established educational institutes as the newest and most innovative e-learning tool being used in the academic world.
The virtual world of Second Life is created by its own members and allows for multiple online communications channels among users in order to maximise benefits gained from using the tool in academic settings.
“While the educational uses of Second Life are not immediately obvious to some people, I believe this is because they do not understand the active nature of the medium. It can be used for whatever we can dream up,” noted Robert Peregoodoff, Supervisor of Educational Technology and AV and Acting Programme Chair of Information Technology at DWC.
At DWC, Second Life will be used for several learning activities, including hospitality industry (hotel simulations and customer service), X-ray department simulations, hospital and nursing simulations, dentistry simulations, jewellery design and manufacturing, international student exchanges between universities and colleges, cultural exchanges, and Internet commerce — sales of items made by students.
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