I agree that it would be a very long road to upgrade the culture of Second Life to an educational focus. Creating a new virtual world from scratch or adopting a different provider (is that what you would call it?) seems to be a much quicker route to enabling the technology of virtual worlds for distance ed purposes. The advantage of starting from scratch or using a format with greater moderation and control in place is that not only can you prevent sleaze, but in large measure you would attract the kind of people who want to avoid sleaze themselves. People who wouldn't conform to the "virtual morale" of the place wouldn't likely go there.
Yes, that makes sense to me. In effect the new environment would have to be boring enough to prevent seakers of sleaze but yet still interesting enough for educational purposes. I think that removing anonymity would also help.
I agree that it would be a very long road to upgrade the culture of Second Life to an educational focus. Creating a new virtual world from scratch or adopting a different provider (is that what you would call it?) seems to be a much quicker route to enabling the technology of virtual worlds for distance ed purposes. The advantage of starting from scratch or using a format with greater moderation and control in place is that not only can you prevent sleaze, but in large measure you would attract the kind of people who want to avoid sleaze themselves. People who wouldn't conform to the "virtual morale" of the place wouldn't likely go there.
ReplyDeleteYes, that makes sense to me. In effect the new environment would have to be boring enough to prevent seakers of sleaze but yet still interesting enough for educational purposes. I think that removing anonymity would also help.
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