Monday Metanomics - Higher Education in Second Life

[Caleb Booker [Onder Skall]]

The next Metanomics session will be this coming Monday at 11am PST.
Entitled "Higher Education in Second Life", the session will explore
how virtual worlds might change the business of education. What are
educational institutions currently doing in Second Life?

To help us answer that question we will be joined by two people
actively involved in educational efforts in Second Life:

Fleep Tuque / Chris Collins
Fleep holds a BA in Political Science and spends 90% of her time
working in Second Life. She has just published a paper with Nancy
Jennings in The Journal of Social Sciences entitled "Virtual or
Virtually U: Educational Institutions in Second Life". In it she gives
an overview of the 170 educational institutions in Second Life, and
how they are using the virtual world to further educational goals.
Fleep is also heavily involved in "emerging technologies" such as
podcasting, blogs, wikis, and of course virtual worlds.

Rejin Tenjin / Ben Konsynski
Rejin is Benn R. Konsynski, the George S. Craft Professor of Business
Administration for Decision & Information Analysis at Emory
University. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science and specializes in
issues of digital commerce and information technology in relationships
across organizations. He established the Center for Electronic
Commerce in 1991 to study how commerce happens online, and more
recently contributed to the paper: "Second Life and Other Virtual
Worlds: A Roadmap for Research".

As usual this event will be held on Metaversed Island and live video
from the event will be broadcast to various Event Partner locations
around the Second Life Grid by our friends at SLCN.tv. If you'd like
to become an Event Partner, please contact me at ca...@metaversed.com.

Looking forward to seeing you there!

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Caleb Booker
Inworld Operations Manager
Metaversed.com