Assessment of Education in Second Life

Hello everyone


And if you signed up for the assessment of education in Second Life or the Assessment of Second Life as and education environment welcome! I have a lot of stuff going on but this is a priority for me so I will try to stay focused and make sure we see some things happen consistently to build this data warehouse of information and data on the effectiveness of SL as a learning environment!

We will have our first meeting on Friday morning April 10-- at 8 am SLT/PST at the Front Range Community College site. I can't wait to see our discussion unfold as it seems this is quite a diverse group coming together.


First of all I want to say Kudos to AJ Kelton from Montclair University for his roundtables and the one he had on Assessment specifically ....because a lot of my rl job requires a focus on this area it was a natural spring board for me to want to work in this area in SL as well. So base upon the initiatives at Montclair I established this group.

Having this data warehouse will help us in many ways. For those who may currently be teaching in SL you may wonder what sort of strategies or changes you need to make to improve...based upon the continous quality improvement model this sort of data and information will help you identify improvements and hopefully best practices to make those improvements.

I am currently using google groups/docs to store articles and research I have found. if you have something better out there that I am not aware of let me know. This could all be moved or even stored in a couple of places.

If you have something to share let me know...this is a collaborative effort of information sharing based upon a social networking model.

More later!

Thanks so much to the wonderful folks at Front Range Community College for coordinating this effort!

Watch for more on the Small Business Management / Entrepreneurship Roundtables..those are great fun and informational!

Cathy


Just a heads up that I will be working with Merlot conference organizers to put some sessions into Second Life..this conference is in August. If you have a build in Second Life that has provided a mean to present learning objects such as note cards, PPts, videos, games, simulations this would be a perfect time to demonstrate the links between Learning objects repositories and second life. Contact me...cathywyo1@yahoo.com