SL impact in Education

This March 2008 report about responses that were received on the topic "Measuring the impact of Second Life for educational purposes" by John Kirriemuir (Silversprite Helsinki), is a transcript of a meeting held in Second Life to discuss the issues raised by a UK academic survey on the subject of developing, or teaching in Second Life.

The Eduserve Foundation ( check their Eduserv Island if you have not done it already) is evaluating "what is happening in SL, particularly with regards to its use in education, and partly with the intention of providing help and support to educators and librarians as they begin to make use of SL as part of thier service delivery to end-users." Very interesting and timely indeed.

You can find the pdf here.

The Business Interface of the Future, Today

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Our guest lecturer for next Tuesday, March 4th, will be Dr. Charles Wankel.

He is the leading founder and director of scholarly virtual communities for management professors, currently directing seven, with thousands of participants in more than seventy nations. He has run online international Internet collaborations in teaching and research for more than a decade.

Dr. Wankel, is Associate Professor of Management at St. John's University, New York, holds a doctorate from New York University where he was admitted to Beta Gamma Sigma, the national honor society for business disciplines. He was awarded the Outstanding Service in Management Education and Development Award at the Academy of Management's 2004 meeting.

One of his interests is to establish virtual team collaborations with diverse educational institutions so this is an excellent opportunity to establish a relationship with this distinguished and internationally recognized expert.

Two teams from Bucknell University's Foundation Seminar

He was a Distinguished Speaker at the E-ducation without Borders 2005 Conference in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, the keynote speaker at the Nippon Academy of Management Education 's Tokyo meeting, Visiting Professor at Banking University in Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi, Vietnam.

He has been an invited lecturer at the University of Malaysia, the National University of Singapore, the Czech Management Center, the University of Warsaw, the Polish Academy of Sciences, and the University of Toronto. U.S. universities that have invited him to lecture include Harvard and Columbia.