16. Specific to Second Life Voice Action Togetherness Experience and feeling
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23. Loyalist College Customs and Immigration students LEARNING OUTCOME RESULTS http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCUWcpVPtMM
24. Loyalist College Customs and Immigration students LEARNING OUTCOME RESULTS Before September 11, 2001, Customs and Immigration students at Loyalist College spent three weeks closely tailing professional border guards to experience the daily routine of their future job. In a post-911 environment however, this was no longer allowed.
25. Loyalist College Customs and Immigration students LEARNING OUTCOME RESULTS Before September 11, 2001, Customs and Immigration students at Loyalist College spent three weeks closely tailing professional border guards to experience the daily routine of their future job. In a post-911 environment however, this was no longer allowed. Training suffered until the Director of Educational Technology at Loyalist College catalyzed a virtual border crossing simulation in Second Life for Loyalist students.
26. Loyalist College Customs and Immigration students LEARNING OUTCOME RESULTS Before September 11, 2001, Customs and Immigration students at Loyalist College spent three weeks closely tailing professional border guards to experience the daily routine of their future job. In a post-911 environment however, this was no longer allowed. Training suffered until the Director of Educational Technology at Loyalist College catalyzed a virtual border crossing simulation in Second Life for Loyalist students. The amazing results of the training and simulation program have led to significantly improved grades on students' critical skills tests, taking scores from a 56% success in 2007, to 95% at the end of 2008 after the simulation was instituted . June 2009 http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Case_Study:_Loyalist_College
27. eLearning environments still are used as uni-linear broadcasting of information and for transferring files. The multi-channel nature of human communication, the student’s own activity and participation, and a feeling of common presence is all but there.
28. eLearning environments still are used as uni-linear broadcasting of information and for transferring files. The multi-channel nature of human communication, the student’s own activity and participation, and a feeling of common presence is all but there. Why?
31. Experiences of arrangements that work Begin with: contact teaching and joint intro to the Second Life Print-outs: short SL-guide, map of virtual environment, instruction Second Life: affordance and activity of the environment continous contact In the web: SL-wiki, own eLearn env., backchannel (Skype or ACP) Blending classroom, the web & Second Life