Second Life News: Pedagogy and Virtual Worlds May 15, 2009
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Health, Health 2.0, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Second Life, Web 2.0.trackback
- How A UC Davis Professor Leverages Second Life For Research (It’s All Virtual)
- Students get a Second Life in medicine (Metro.co.uk)
- Interview – DeeAnna Nagel and Kate Anthony, Psychotherapists (Metaverse Health)
DeeAnna Nagel and Kate Anthony are psychotherapists and founders of the Online Therapy Institute. The pair have only recently expanded their work to Second Life, but they have extensive experience in working with people therapeutically online. The pair now have a presence on Jokaydia in Second Life. I caught up with them to talk online counselling / therapy.
You can find many interesting and valuable articles focusing on how the virtual world could be used in education at Pedagogy and Virtual Worlds: Journal of Virtual Worlds Research.
I think using a virtual environment is a great training tool for professions of all types. As a patient I think it would be amazing to have access to people from my local hospital who were available to answer questions about hospital procedures or other nonmedical questions online during non traditional office hours.
Birdie, that is a very valid point. Actually, there already are support sites and groups in Second Life.
nice idea of sharing link, thanks, it will really be useful
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