{"id":431,"date":"2012-08-11T19:08:16","date_gmt":"2012-08-11T18:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.silversprite.com\/?page_id=431"},"modified":"2017-04-17T11:29:24","modified_gmt":"2017-04-17T11:29:24","slug":"431-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.silversprite.com\/?page_id=431","title":{"rendered":"Responses to impact question: March 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u201cMeasuring\u201d the Impact of Second Life for Educational Purposes.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In late 2007, the following question was put to UK academics known for developing, or teaching, in Second Life:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI have a question. How can (if it can) the &#8216;impact&#8217; of using SL for educational purposes such as an in-world seminar or tutorial, over not using SL, be &#8220;measured&#8221; or quantified?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m currently a little stumped on this. For the next snapshot, I want to focus more on the &#8216;impact&#8217;. In other words, to come up with more proof or evidence that using SL has some benefits, or positive advantages, over not using SL or using some other practice.<\/p>\n<p>How to do this in a form of questions has me stumped :-(\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This report contains a collection of informal responses to the question.<\/p>\n<p>The Eduserv Foundation facilitated a meeting, on their island in Second Life, for further discussion on this issue. This took place on 23rd January 2008 and lasted some 90 minutes. The question put to the meeting was:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cHow can the use of SL to engender learning best be assessed?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The transcript of the meeting is provided in the report. <\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Measuring the Impact of Second Life for Educational Purposes\" href=\"https:\/\/www.silversprite.com\/ss\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Impact.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Measuring the Impact of Second Life for Educational Purposes.<\/a> (202Kb PDF document)<\/p>\n<p>This report was one of the deliverables of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.silversprite.com\/?page_id=353\">Virtual World Watch<\/a> project and service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMeasuring\u201d the Impact of Second Life for Educational Purposes. In late 2007, the following question was put to UK academics known for developing, or teaching, in Second Life: \u201cI have a question. How can (if it can) the &#8216;impact&#8217; of using SL for educational purposes such as an in-world seminar or tutorial, over not using SL, be &#8220;measured&#8221; or quantified? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":353,"menu_order":20,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-431","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.silversprite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.silversprite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.silversprite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.silversprite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.silversprite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.silversprite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/431\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.silversprite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.silversprite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}