Join Designing Worlds today, Monday 26th February, at 2pm SLT as we look back to this episode from the past (June 2014), when we looked at three fascinating educational projects, created by two Finnish designers, which demonstrated that Second Life can be used for education on a variety of levels.
Case Dirval and Yolanda Hirvi were the designers behind Metaverstas (in English here), and they took us through three fascinating projects – firstly a virtual microbrewery created for a technical college, then a series of biochemistry laboratories created for Finland’s largest university, and finally a history project created to teach high school students about the Winter War, when Finland was attacked by the USSR in 1939.
The projects demonstrated how Second Life can be used to replicate processes which would – if based in the real world – be hugely time consuming and costly. They also offered the opportunity for students to learn associated tasks such as laboratory safety and security without needing to utilise real facilities. And they also offered the opportunity to study exactly how students learn.
You can watch the show here on the web, or join us in the Designing Worlds studio at 2pm for a really fascinating show on the potential for educational uses of Second Life.
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