Education & Training

A Globally Networked Virtual Classroom

The Second Life Grid enables students, educators, and businesses to create innovative environments for distance learning, computer-supported cooperative work, simulation, new media studies, and corporate training.

The Second Life Grid provides an opportunity to use simulation in a safe environment to enhance experiential learning, allowing individuals to practice skills, try new ideas, and learn from their mistakes. The ability to prepare for similar real-world experiences by using the Second Life Grid's tools for simulation has unlimited potential.

Students and educators can work together on the Second Life Grid from anywhere in the world as part of a globally networked virtual classroom environment. Using the Second Life Grid as a supplement to traditional classroom environments also provides new opportunities for enriching an existing curriculum. Many universities and educational institutions are already using the Second Life Grid, and you can find an updated list of them here.

The future of education is best predicted by inventing it.

Stanford University

Stanford University's Virtual Human Interaction Lab uses the Second Life Grid to explore people's social interactions and investigate how virtual worlds can help improve our everyday life. More

The University of Houston

The University of Houston’s Money and Design class is a Design Economics course where designers test their design and entrepreneurial skills in a virtual market. More

Montana State University-Bozeman

At Montana State University-Bozeman, Terry Beaubois, Director of the Creative Research Lab at the College of Arts & Architecture has been teaching courses in Second Life for two years. He states, "I look forward to continuing going into Second Life to teach, learn, and see what everyone else is accomplishing, for years to come. This is really still just the beginning." More

Suffern Middle School

Peggy Sheehy, Instructional Technologist for the Suffern Middle School in New York, has helped over four hundred students into Teen Second Life for several unique projects including building a virtual museum featuring 20th century inventions and a mock trial in a model courtroom. More

Harvard Law School

The Harvard Law School teaches its class, “CyberOne: Law in the Court of Public Opinion," at Harvard and Berkman Island in Second Life simultaneously. More

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