Research Studies

Please contribute links to research plans or studies about Second Life’s use in education, corporate, and training environments.

PC vs. Mac Usage

What percentage of educational users use pc vs. macs? What percentage of corporate training user user pc vs. macs? What browsers are used the most? What virtual worlds would be viable for both environments?

Virual Worlds to Explore

SecondLife (Mac or PC) Lively by Google (XP/Vista only with IE or Firefox) Forterra (private network OLIVE) Open Life Grid (XP/Vista only) Vivaty (XP/Vista only) DeepGrid using OpenSimulator (Mac or PC) Qwaq Forums IMVU

Research Questions

What do we want to research? Possible choices? What companies are offering virtual worlds services? Which virtual worlds are used for education/training? Relative pros/cons of each virtual worlds. Who is closest to knocking SL off as the leader and why? Given the knowledge/skills learned, what do I think about SL as an instructional tool? What [...]

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