This space is currently being updated and is a work in progress… please add a comment if you’d like to recommend any relevant links.

Research and practice online / in immersive worlds  

The PREVIEW Project, focused on the use of Problem-Based Learning in Immersive Worlds: website

‘The second life of UK academics’ John Kirriemuir introduces a series of studies investigating how the Second Life environment is being used in UK Higher and Further Education: website

‘Education 2.0? Designing the web for teaching and learning.’ A commentary by the ESRC / EPSRC-supported teaching and learning research programme (TRLP): PDF file

The PhD process
What can I write about?: The rhetorical question for PhD students and their supervisors. Dr Rowena Murray, Centre for Academic Practice, University of Strathclyde: article

Guidance Materials
Getting started with Second Life. A guide to Second Life developed by staff at Coventry University, University of Oxford and St George’s University of London: PDF