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You?

Fancy a bit of publicity for your work?

Are you in UK Higher or Further Education, and active in virtual worlds? This could be either:

  • Researching their use in teaching and learning
  • Developing educational constructs
  • Using virtual worlds for educational purposes
  • Studying virtual worlds
  • … or perhaps some other application or use of this environment

If so, we would like to hear from you. Tell us what you are doing and how it is going. If you are more comfortable with a framework of questions, here’s one (all are optional):

  1. Who are you and what university or college are you based in?
  2. Which virtual worlds are you using, and for what purpose?
  3. How many students (if applicable) have used your particular virtual world application? What were their experiences?
  4. In a nutshell – did using a virtual world work – or not. If so, or not, why?
  5. What has been the experience inside your institution, and the attitude of your peers, towards your virtual world usage?
  6. Do you have any future plans for virtual world usage, especially in teaching and learning, inside your institution?

Email john (@) virtualworldwatch.net

Relevant content will make it into the next applicable report, so you can email in what you are up to at any time. Some content may also be blogged about here on the Virtual World Watch website, which gives you more publicity for your work.

As well as helping to build up a more representative idea of developments and trends in UK academia, responses also help provide information of use to potential “wannabe” developers in academia, especially those trying to make an internal or external case for such activities.

In addition, VWW tries to get developers connected with other like-minded academics, such as those working in the same subject area or using the same virtual world.