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11 Jul 08
Tara McGowanUniversities created virtual campuses on Second Life- hold class, medical demonstrations, etc
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an increasing number of colleges and universities are embracing it as a tool to reach students raised on computers and video games.
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Students don't sign up for a Second Life course, but they might be asked to use Second Life as part of a course. A student might attend a lecture or PowerPoint presentation in a virtual meeting room on their college's island. Or an instructor might set up a homework assignment in Second Life.
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"You can build something that's impossible or very expensive to build in the real world, then look at it and interact with it," said Dean Terry, associate professor of arts and technology at UTD, and director of the school's virtual worlds lab. "Because things like gravity are optional and you can't get hurt in Second Life, you can visualize things that you would not be able to visualize otherwise."
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"You can take risks that aren't safe in the real world and teach more complex subjects in three dimensions," said Colleen Lin, DCCCD's Web site content developer. "When you're resuscitating a dummy in real life, it looks like a dummy. But you can program an avatar to look like it's choking or having a heart attack, and it looks more real to the student responsible for resuscitating it."
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compares Second Life to a three-dimensional version of the World Wide Web
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