Maria Toro-Troconis, Imperial College London
Imperial College London have been working on, and using, a substantial development in Second Life for some time. In response to the latest snapshot call, Maria sent in some details.
We have been developing game-based learning for the delivery of virtual patients in Second Life.
The Faculty of Medicine at Imperial College London has developed a Virtual Hospital in Second Life that aims to design game-based learning activities for the delivery of virtual patients that can drive experiential, diagnostic, and role-play learning activities supporting patients’ diagnosis, investigation and treatment.
Phase I of this project focused on the delivery of a virtual patient in the area of Respiratory Medicine following a game-based learning model in Second Life. A pilot was carried out in March 2008 with 43 students. The feedback received has informed the development of Phase II which incorporates a multi-patient approach.
You can visit the development in Second Life and there is more information on their elearning website.
In addition, there are a couple of videos put on YouTube.
Phase I: Game-based learning for virtual patients in Second Life:
Phase II: Game-based learning for virtual patients – multi patients:
Maria can also be found on Twitter.
Excellent work in game-based learning. Good luck with this project.
Regards,
Milton Broome (Simon Bignell – University of Derby)