Resources
Some online resources for people interested in, or using, virtual worlds in an academic, teaching or learning context. Note that virtual world watch is slanted towards the UK and Ireland academic virtual world community.
Forthcoming events: Events, both in the real world and in-world, which shouldn’t bust the budget of UK academic too much.
Links to a few guides and reports that may be of use to new, and more experienced, users of virtual worlds in education.
Social media and lists: UK academics who blog about their virtual world activities, and people and organisations to consider following on Twitter et al, plus a few mailing lists to also consider.
Worlds: Some of the virtual worlds, or world-building technologies, recently used in the UK education sector.
Elsewhere…
The Learning in Virtual Worlds wiki by Lindy Orwin has links to subject-based virtual world resources.
There is a significant overlap in activities and research between the ‘virtual world in education’ and ‘digital games’ in education communities. You might therefore find a few resources of use or interest over at GAME-SIG, the Games And Multiverses in Education Special Interest Group.
