SimTeach 2006, Second Life, Kemp and Metaversities
You might ask, "what the heck did Sloan mean when he blogged about Second Life and (gasp) the concept of a metaversity?"
Well, this should help explain. Here is a pdf document compiled by SJSU's own Jeremy Kemp on the use of Second Life as a teaching tool. Second Life (wikipedia) is a virtual world that is on the Internet. The term Metaversity is a hack of the word Metaverse and University. According to Wikipedia, "The Metaverse, a phrase coined by Neal Stephenson's science fiction novel Snow Crash (1992) constitutes Stephenson's vision of how a virtual reality-based Internet might evolve in the near future." In my opinion this virtual reality-based Internet will be Web 3.0.
They may be college teachers and students, but they're also pioneers — exploring strange new worlds that exist nowhere on Earth. That's because their classes and field trips take place only on computers, using an online digital world called Second Life. - USAToday
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