1. Identities within Virtual Worlds
and Future Metaverses:
Implications for our Existence in
Online Spaces

2. • The implications of the change to
digital learning
• Will it be accepted by the society?

3. Is He saying
Future
that the change
is needed?
Marc Prensky said,
‘Our students have
changed radically.
Today’s students are
no longer the people
our educational
system was
designed to teach’
Is the students (Prensky, 2011, p.1)
changing
through
nurture or are
they being
influenced by
technology?

5. Is digital learning already in used?

7. ‘There are ‘over 700 educational institutions from
all over the world are in Second Life today’
(Linden Lab, 2011)
‘Dozens of highly successful projects are proving
that Second Life can be as effective as traditional
classrooms and for many students it’s an even
more effective learning environment’ (Linden
Lab, 2011) .

8. Loyalist college:
Virtual World Simulation Training Prepares Real
Guards on the US-Canadian Border: Loyalist College
in Second Life
‘Before September 11, 2001, Customs and Immigration students at
Loyalist College spent three weeks tailing professional border guards to
experience the daily routine of their future job.
However, 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’. (second life, 2011)
scores from a
56% success in
2007, to 95% Over 650
at the end of students and 8
2008 faculty to
explore Second
Life for mixed
purposes.

9. ‘The New Media Consortium (NMC)
is a non-profit consortium of
learning-focused organizations
founded in 1993. it has nearly 300
members, including most of the top
colleges and universities in the
world, museums, research centers,
foundations, and other forward-
thinking organizations. Since 2006
the NMC has used Second Life as
another medium to achieve their
mission - to encourage the use of
emerging technologies in support of
teaching, learning, research, and
creative expression – with
remarkable results’. (second life,
2009)

10. The open university:
Providing Geographically Dispersed Students &
Faculty A Place to Meet and Learn Together:

11. Advantages
• ‘Today's challenging environment:
Economic pressures from budget cuts and the
rising cost of education continue to mount. While
students are forced to pay higher tuition fees,
share resources, and even drop classes, educators
are obligated to creatively “do more with less” by
designing curricula that accommodates economic
constraints’ (Linden Lab, 2011)

12. • ‘Virtual worlds enable real life
learning:
Second Life’s persistent virtual environments
enable students to work together
synchronously and then return, individually or
as a team’ (Linden Lab, 2011)
They can also And most
work with importantly,
It amplifies ‘You feel like
students from learning via You can
various areas you’re there. We
presentations, call it a sense of prototype real
which broaden chat, calls. life productions.
their “presence”’.
imaginations. (Linden Lab,
2011)

13. Ken Hudson,
Managing Director,
Virtual World Design
Center, Loyalist College
says

14. • Thus you can collaborate with the other
educational environment. Such as the 700
institutions.

16. Students might
display
cyberdisinhibition
as i experienced
on Unity 3d.
It may not
be relevant Addiction
for all (Vine,2010)
subjects
Ontology

17. Immersionist: ‘they rarely
reveal their real life
identities, not disclosing
personal information
within their profile and
using text rather than
voice to communicate’.
Augmentationist: ‘people’s
real world identities tend
to be known, and there is
no sense of role-play, or
adopting the conventions
of a separate self-
contained space’.

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