The 2nd Louisiana Invitational Conference on Virtual Worlds in Higher Education!

The 2nd Louisiana Invitational Conference on Virtual Worlds in Higher Education

Overarching Theme: Getting Virtual Worlds into the Businesses of Higher Education: Teaching, Research, Scholarship, and Service

When: Thursday, Nov. 12 and Friday, Nov. 13, 2009, 10:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m. CST (8:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. SLT)

Where: ...Louisiana Regents Estate in Second Life Louisiana Regents, New Orleans, SELU Regents, Tulane Regents, ULM Regents, Delgado Regents, Loyola Regents, and SUNO Regents Islands
SLURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Louisiana%20Regents/181/79/24

Sponsors: The Louisiana Board of Regents; University of New Orleans; Tulane University; Southeastern Louisiana University; Southern University New Orleans; University of Louisiana, Monroe; Loyola University, New Orleans; Delgado Community College

Focus: Presentations, activities, and discussions are for participants in Louisiana and around the world on Virtual Worlds in Higher Education such as Second Life and using SL for HE, including questions like: What is happening in SL at your location? What are your projects in SL? What research are you conducting in SL? What are the values added to HE in general by using virtual worlds?

Who: Higher Education distance learning practitioners and researchers who are using or looking into using virtual worlds

E-Mail Contact for Participants: Conference Coordinator Lindsey Graveline (lgraveli@uno.edu, LindseyGraveline Xue) R.S.V.P, preferred, by Monday, November 2, 2009

E-Mail Contact for Presenters: Conference Coordinator Richard Speaker (rspeaker@uno.edu, RichardSpeaker Zhaoying)

Category:

Education

Tags:

• distance
• education
• uno
• virtual
• worlds
• second
• life
• loyola
• tulane
• delgado
• suno
• lsu
• louisiana
• state
• university
• system