English Course Material as OER

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The course material that was developed for the UOC summer course is now available with a Creative Commons licence.

To give you an idea, the chapters are as follows:

1. Introduction
2. First steps in Second Life
3. Building your own world - 3D model creation in Second Life
4. Who are you? Identities, trust and interaction in virtual environments.
5. Code is Law - Rules, laws and boundaries of the game
6. Economy: Business, micro-entrepreneurship, advertising
7. Second Life as teaching and learning space
8. Risks and opportunities of in-world engagements
9. Politics & campaigning
10. Media in Second Life: In-world media, Reporting about Second Life
11. Building your own world II
12. Literature
13. Shortcuts

You can download the Virtual Worlds - A Second Life Beginner’s Guide (PDF) (v1.04, 18 Ju... here. (We are constantly trying to upload the resource to the www.oercommons.org portal but they seem to have serious technical problems and the registration is not working for almost a week now... we'll keep you posted)