Salam ABDALLAH & Jamal DOUGLAS, TOJDE
SL has been characterized to enable feelings of immersion, connection with students and content, shared social learning space, and real sense of being there. SL is considered as an ideal ground for social constructive learning, where knowledge and artifact are constructed collaboratively. Teachers are designing learning activities and conducting complete courses in variety of disciplines. Second Life can provide a platform to mirror real workplace situations. It is recognized for collaborative learning environment to foster teamwork and interactions for students’ projects such as Systems Development, and developing electronic commerce business plans (Bixler, n.d; Ye et al., 2007, Bloomfield, 2007; Ives et al, 2008, Jarmon et al., 2008). It has a potential as a communication tool for lecturing (Martinez, 2007 ) and creating virtual offices to assist and advice students during office hours (Cliburn et al. 2009). It is for all these reasons, faculty and students are being attracted to SL.
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