Virtual Environments: Is one life enough?

Welcome to the module ‘Virtual Environments: Is one life enough?’ being offered as an elective module to students of Technological University Dublin studying art & design, architecture, media and business.

Classes will start on Monday 10th February at 1:00 pm for two hours. We meet online every week on Mondays and Saturdays at 5:00 to 7:00 pm at TU Dublin in Second Life and other venues in SL. Please note: you will need a Mac or PC desktop or laptop to access Second Life – you cannot do so with a mobile device.

Full details about the module are available to eligible registered students on the university VLE, Brightspace, where you may self-enrol (If you have any issues enrolling email John O’Connor or Lucía Morales at TU Dublin). Read the Introduction unit carefully where you will find instructions on how to access Second Life and set up your personal avatar. Learning how to get around the virtual world and familiarising yourself with the environment and how to control your avatar will take a few hours so give yourself plenty of time before class starts.

Please read pages 1 to 9 in the column on the right hand side of this website also. If you would like to find out more about what to expect during the semester read the posts in this blog: all class since 2009 have been summarised.

If you have any problems email John O’Connor at TU Dublin.

Once again, this semester we will be working with Prof Murat Gülmez (aka Magua) and his students at Çağ University in Turkey. Also joining us will be colleagues from the European University of Technology alliance EUt+ Dr Lucia Morales and Intesar Made from TU Dublin Faculty of Business and Dr Lia Pop from the Technical University of Cluj Napoca in Romania, along with their students. We will primarily be working on the Virtual Worlds Education Consortium Student Challenge which will see students from across the globe competing for a range of awards.

There is also an opportunity to earn Digital Badges in Global Citizenship through Virtual Worlds and Digital Literacy. For more information on this opportunity see the TU Dublin webpage here.