Second Life for education

News release 2014-09-Oct

"The Perelman School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania and Virtual Ability, Inc. announce their collaboration on a major patient-centered outcomes research (PCOR) project entitled, "Mrs. A and Mr. B." The working definition for PCOR is provided by the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI). The project is funded by PCORI. This project, "Mrs. A and Mr. B," aims to identify those fundamental changes in the health services and delivery system that are needed to create equitable, compassionate, empowering, affordable, and life enhancing systems of healthcare. The project seeks public dialogue about good and bad experiences in the current system. It will combine what the public tells us with findings about how access and healthcare quality as perceived by thousands of adult (>21 years of age) Medicare beneficiaries impacts progression of disabilities and survival. Patients are at the center of everything health providers do. It is essential to ask people with disabilities to help address and guide how healthcare should be delivered to them. The project will promote empowerment and self-direction by providing better information for people with disabilities about the importance of advocating for better access and higher quality care. The Mrs. A. and Mr. B. project is currently recruiting participants from the United States (clinicians, people with disabilities, and people without disabilities) for participation in a survey and virtual world-based focus group. If you are already a member of Second Life®, you may be eligible to participate. Please, consider volunteering to be part of this research. Visit our volunteer link, or contact us at info@HealthcareEquitability.org."

SL Interview Hawc Decosta KaplanU 2009 May Why would an educator want to use SecondLife? Hawc Decosta, (SL) Doug Brown, Adjunct Professor, Criminal Justice, Kaplan University, meets with us in SecondLife at his CJ EdTech teaching facility to show us his courtrooms and crime scene investigation labs and to give us his answer to that very question. (2009 May)

"http://youtu.be/QRSBEzGBoqE?list=UUnvfdaq0SrmDTlx5g_1doFg"

Why would an educator want to use SecondLife? Ilene Pratt (SL) from the University of South Florida and the Master of Distance Education program at the Graduate School of Management and Technology, University of Maryland University College (UMUC, http://www.umuc.edu) meets with us in Cybrary City in SecondLife to give us her answer to that very question. (2009 May)

Learn & Teach in SL; 3D Art & Machinima Challenge; and more...

"Uploaded on 20 Sep 2010 Winner of the Univ of Western Australia Machinima 2 Art of the Artists Contest Special Award for Crossover Impact! Awarded 2nd place, Best Production, in the Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education Machinima Contest, 2011. This "machinima" video (digital video captured in real-time in a virtual world or other 3-d game environment) shows examples of virtual art that is immersive or interactive. You click; something happens. The examples are some of the prize winners and other entries in the University of Western Australia's Imagine 3d Art & Design Challenge, a year-long art competition with monthly awards. Written, filmed in Second Life at UWA Winthrop, & edited by L1Aura Loire/Lori Landay for the Art of the Artists MachinimaUWA"

Uploaded on 5 Feb 2012, but it's as relevant and meaningful today as it was then! A short promotional clip highlighting the key elements that underlie the presence of the University of Western Australia in Second Life.

" SL Artist & AviewTV "