pICTsl Farm goals for 2008
Posted on March 12, 2008
Filed under Announcement
Will 2008 be full of interesting developments and innovations in virtual worlds beyond Second Life? That’s what some are saying. We’ve given the Farm 2008 some thought. We asked our audience what they wanted “to know” about virtual worlds and we got some great and challenging responses like:
- How are organizations using VE (Virtual environments) for education and training?
- What difference are these programs making?
- When VE programs work, why? When they don’t, why?
- How faculty are using virtual environments for research?
- How is it used for teaching?
- How the administration is using it for student orientation, and helping them to decrease their time-to-degree?
To get at any one of these questions in a systematic way is a big project. At the same time, there are vw (virtual worlds) projects in the pipeline (so I heard at MetaverseU) and a lot of discussions about them as well. We decided to participate in these discussions and bring what we learn back to Farm…well the flatweb Farm-this blog and website. This is what we’ll be up to.
Between February 2008 and 2009 we will:
* Follow near future trends in virtual worlds relevant to SDSU
* Develop a knowledge base on this site which will include vetted resources that will help us understand these spaces and the domain as a whole.
* What are important characteristics of each space?
* What are the implications of these developments for SDSU in the near future?
* Who is doing what in these spaces?
* How is Second Life evolving?
We’ll also:
* Maintain the pICTsl Farm in Second Life
* Offer on demand consulting in Second Life
* Offer a Summer Session Introduction to Second Life Workshop
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