Duke University School of Nursing in Second Life

We have built a Second Life® infrastructure that allows faculty and students experiential learning, role-playing, and promotes social interaction, in a collaborative environment in our distance education program. It furthermore supports immersion and presence, allowing real-time teaching and discussion that enhances the mentor/mentee relationship in a simulated learning environment. With virtual environments, we now have the option to create social and professional relationships which have been the missing component of distance learning.

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Education

Tags:

• Duke
• nursing school
• virtual worlds
• virtual reality
• innovative learning
• education
• distance learning
• distance education
• duke nursing

[potpie921]

amazing

[thebigfootme]

great!

[erikis894]

Very interesting!!

[y6wg1s]

wow!  I am impressed and surprised that I would be...go figure

[MarciAngNPE]

This is an interesting concept. We provide information to nurses & potential nurses on nursing education and have recently seen a large boom in online training environments in the healthcare sector. This Second Life infrastructure is a very interesting expansion to the online training mode. Very exciting for nurse education distance learning!

[hiropendragon]

This is very good. It's a bit light-hearted at times, but it hits a lot of the key points on why virtual environments are useful for simulation and learning. My only criticism is the comparing early on "second life vs real life" - as if doing something online isn't real. A better dichotomy would be "physical vs virtual".

[satoruuuu1]

omg wow

[TheTrendone]

This is great to see.

[MissCedarbridge1]

this is so cool

[vford43]

nice