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Education in Second Life
United States (optional: state)
67 74.4%
Free text answers: Arizona CA (3) California (5) Connecticut Florida Georgia IL (2) Illinois (5) Iowa Kentucky Maryland Mass. Michigan (3) Missouri (2) Montana NC NE New Jersey New York nj Ohio (2) Oklahoma Oregon (2) pa sc South Carolina Tennessee Texas (2) Virginia (3) Washington WI Wisconsin (2)
Other (please specifiy)
8 8.9%
Free text answers: Australia (3) Canada Canada : Ontario India Second Life Singapore
England
3 3.3%
Netherlands
3 3.3%
SPAIN
2 2.2%
European Union (optional: country)
2 2.2%
Poland
1 1.1%
Ireland
1 1.1%
Sweden
1 1.1%
UK
1 1.1%
Austria
1 1.1%
What is the highest level of education have you completed?
Masters Degree
41 45.6%
Free text answers: 2 masters degrees 2 masters; working on a third BU - MLS Educational Technology Educational Technology Leadership Elementary Education & Political Science Library Science (2) M.S.L.S. MA in Mass Comm Master of Philosophy, MBA MATHEMATICS MLIS (2) MLS (2) MLS and MBA MS in Education - Instructional Technology Leadership
University - 4 year degree
31 34.4%
Free text answers: 2 year degree 3 year F/T degree Librarianship & Information Sudies (BA Hons) B. App. Sci. (ILS) BA (2) Ba. Teaching, Ba. Science Bachelor of Communication : Information (3 year degree with University of Canberra) BS - Computer Science BS x2 Computer Science History w Library Science Minor - Some grad work Industrial Design Information Technology Bachelor It's 3 years in my country. Got my bachelor diploma, now doing master (finishing in one year) Psychology Southern Illinois Unversity -Education University College
Doctorate
9 10%
Free text answers: Ph. D., University of Oregon UTD
High School
9 10%
Free text answers: + 2 years college + 2 yr college Associate Degree Not completed Some college
How many courses have you taken in Second Life?
1-2
43 45.7%
3+
30 31.9%
Free text answers: 4-5 6 building, scripting, making my own clothes mostly building and scripting My partner is an instructor, so I am always getting lessons! Scripting and building Upwards of 70...
0
21 22.3%
Voluntarily
83 84.7%
Free text answers: "voluntarily" is spelled incorrectly! 0 A basic free course on doing things in SL all have been voluntary basic and advanced SL building classes, land ownership, scripting basic building with prims basic scripting Basically workshops in SL skills, and I held a MySpace lecture Bookmaking, Clothing Basics building (2) building & SL skills classes, special interest classes Building - Ivory Tower building and anti-griefing in SL Building Courses building NCI classes, scripting (paid scripter, Redux), library related demos (griefing) BUILDING OBJECTS, TEXTURES building, clothes making, scripting Building, Textures Eiseldora's classes - Managing Inventory and Beginning Building (sic) Griefers 101; Basic Machinima How to build a hot tub, How to make gestures. how tos for SL I have attended workshops, etc. rather than courses per se. In world building workshops. [Change "Voulentarily" to "Voluntarily".] Intro to LSL Ivory Tower Library of Primitives Ivory Tower, a few university courses Learning to build things LSL Scripting Machinima, Intor to Building mostly scripting courses mostly SL classes none (3) not found any I wanted to take, as yet nothing school related - building educational materials for others Prims / Library Book Making Prims 103 sat in on a number of lectures Scripting, Building, Religion-Related scripting, land ownership sl scripting 1 and 2 Some scripting courses and one building course this should be spelt "Voluntarily" Self paced tutorial in building basics VOLUNTARILY (spell check!!!) Voluntary classes but no courses
Mandatory
15 15.3%
Free text answers: digital communication It keeps kicking me back....if I answer no above, I should not have to fill this out. LSL Scripting None (6) part of a masters course in Exploratory Learning Using Games and Simulations Various building and scripting courses
Did the course(s) perform assessment through quizzes or tests?
No
74 91.4%
Free text answers: But I am working on a fun 3D quiz technique of my own. Demonstrations I used what I learned by making things for myself in Second Life. It was project based Not technically. However, the ones regarding SL skills, those were done in SL, therefore your resul Practical, no assessment presentations in SL You either successfully or unsuccessfully built three items
Yes
7 8.6%
Free text answers: One did. The Griefers class was performance-based, so the instructor could see right away if you were getting Yes, online tests - multiple choice, short answer
How difficult do you feel the SL learning curve is?
3 - Moderate
48 53.3%
4
18 20%
2
12 13.3%
1 - Not Difficult
9 10%
5 - Very difficult
3 3.3%
What was beneficial to your SL educational experience?
Communication
59 27.8%
Free text answers: "We" being all the educators from around the world I have met there. Brings technologies like chat to life; helps establish & maintain communication with others, includi Chat communication did not disrupt the learning flow Easy to talk to a class, or talk to an individual, or a group I certain made use of the "history" button feature when I fell behind. I was able to capture the en I like being able to chat and having a history I would prefer VoIP where possible... just waiting for voice integration in SL... I am still fine to It's wonderful to be in contact with people in so many places around the planet. Many different cultures and diverse people. one of most important benefits is ability to talk to people from all over Though slide/audio
Creativity
51 24.1%
Free text answers: A world to be built. being able to draw from personal and work related skills and apply them in a new environment (far le But prim limits suck. Design classes gallery showings I've really enjoyed the building & clothes making. Scripting is just plain awful ! Info Island, Tower of Prim Lots of freedom in the environment New things learned Second Life is interesting. the only limitation is your imagination Three basic figures that were different enough to show how many other items could be created. I was very inspirational
Colloboration
45 21.2%
Free text answers: And we build it together. Assistance from peers was very nice Being able to talk to others is the greatest aid Everyone operating like a community so after initial input there was still help from "classmates" Finding out about & being able to work w/librarians and others from all over the world--people with have opportunity to work with people on international level helpful residents I had the opportunity to work closely with other students hundreds of miles away on a mutual project I've helped develop the Sci-Fi & Fantasy Library on Info Island 1 and have helped on Dreams Island. meeting with people from all over the world and appreciating the language barriers, particularly in Second Life is collaboration squared. with another RL educator working with others
Individuality / Personal Expression
37 17.5%
Other
20 9.4%
Free text answers: A top of the line computer, great bandwidth. It will be years before your average person has a suff building skills Coding skills Getting up to speed on scripting greater presence than previoius web spaces I see SL as a stage to which I have access without time and economical barriers available in RL learning by doing Learning from others, reading group postings, attending meetings, being helped individually Once again, I have not taken any classes via SL patients People skills Static and interactive educational installations like the Ivory Tower of Prims Teachers who were prepared and actually taught rather than just handing out notecards. The learning The class has give me, who has had no programming experience, confidence that I could take other cla the fact that physical location was not an issue The fullfillment of dreams. No. Really. I was dreaming about the Grid for years before we met. This question seems unclear. Of course all those things plus others were 'beneficial'. What is it yo
What things would you like to see to improve the quality of your educational experience in Second Life?
Better communication tools, etc...
70 100%
Free text answers: A better search engine to make it easier to find and get to events and locations; a more stable envi A clearer UI, superior Inventory and Item management Audio Audio(two way) beter interface. Not a gamer so unfamiliar with the usual conventions better advanced examples Better development tools Better group communication tools, more customizable (free) items, better search features, better ind better internal search engine, ability to archive items better scripting language Better tools for delivering course material. Better tools for viewing text information, Better integration of html better use of html and flash with the SL environment, better live audio Building HUDs collaborative or group goals, work distribution and coordination EDUCATION NON-RELATED TO SL, INSIDE SL emails on upcoming courses Esp rl to sl display and distribution tools group meeting with video HIgher system reliability. Better presentation tools - seems like serious learning still requires we HTML on a Prim? Maybe. Voice integration? Sure, OK. 3D viewer? Absolutley. i could not complete either class due to lag - everything locked up each time I was going to take a basic class in learning how to use the tools made available by the ICT Library I would like to display websites within SL and have easier voice communication I'm a teacher studying the possibilities of SL as a teaching venue. Please e-mail me with info or re I'm on a T1 line and videos are still slow to load and play. improved building and scripting tools, to allow creation of a more powerful and immersive user-gener LDAP integration for logins. It should be possible to work out with Linden, to connect to our LDAP, Less crashes, for one... Less LAG !, less trouble teleporting make it easier to create objects! Moore than one teacher and one bot that tells the instructions More courses! More opportunity to take classes on SL skills, more mentoring More regularly scheduled classes, or at least a central place to go to see the upcoming classes. No more reliable grid more sandboxes more spaces void of offensive content and activities More stable platform (2) More use of the central Education Event databse; I miss a lot of classes because they aren't listed More web based access for data input and research (such as profiles, searches, & documents) when ava offline tutorials in basic SL skils like building; easier offline creation of content to upload - ca removing the lag, this really lowers the quality; the upcoming voice communication would be nice; po speaking instead of typing Spell check Teach gives audio lecture, plus a written transcript. The platform MUST be more stable. The down time and glitches greatly reduce the usable time. I ne The quality of the experience, in that I connect via a T3, yet I still am in a "Charlie Chaplin" lag Transcripts of courses since chat can be hard to follow voice (3) voice capability for presentations, improved scalability with less lag, ability to view websites in Voice communication / web site interaction voice interaction. text chat doesn't cut it voice over IP within client Voice over text, at least for the instructor Voice would be good for speeches and presentations, but chat is preferable for most SL transactions. voice! Voice, a more stable platform Voice, less lag Web integration Weeding out people that are not 'serious' about the educational classes/meetings. It can be quite a
Number of voters
: 94
First vote
: Thursday, 01 March 2007 23:45
Last vote
: Tuesday, 13 March 2007 09:10
Education in Second Life 
