A Virtual PolyU Campus has been built on the Second Life platform. We are the first educational institute in Asia who has our virtual campus in Second Life for teaching & learning activities. We started from 2007 as a 3C project “PolyU Virtual Hotel” and extend to our current project “CoreSL – HKPolyU in Second Life”. We aimed to enhance the learning experience of our students within the a rich 3D virtual environment to support learning activities and let students gaining a deeper level of learning, extend their professional knowledge and life skills for their all-rounded development. The work is a joint effort by staff from the Department of Applied Social Sciences (APSS), the Department of Computing, the School of Hotel and Tourism Management (SHTM), the School of Design (SD), and the Pao Yue-kong library. Learning activities for more than 15 courses from the supporting departments with over 2500 staffs (academic and non-academic) and students involved have been practiced. Our Project ...A Virtual PolyU Campus was built on the Second Life platform, which is a 3-D virtual world now gaining popularity with over 9 million users worldwide. The project expands and improves on existing PolyU structures in Second Life. Second Life enables students, educators, and businesses to create innovative environments for distance learning, computer supported cooperative work, simulations and teaching, with an opportunity to use simulation in a safe environment to enhance experiential learning, allowing individuals to practice skills, try new ideas, and learn from their mistakes. It is extremely challenging for any educational institution to develop a well produced simulation as they cannot compete on budget with industry, nor can they compete with talented game designers, so Second Life provides a ready-made platform to begin with. Undoubtedly, the ability to prepare for similar real-world experiences by using Second Life as a tool for simulation has unlimited potential. Our Achievement ...
Our Goal ...We aim to provide a new virtual campus to enhance the learning experience of students at the HK Polytechnic University through the development and deployment of four functional spaces: Teaching & Learning, Assessment, Design and Resources, within the a rich 3D virtual environment - Second Life, to support student learning activities and let students to be able to gain a deeper level of learning, extend their professional knowledge and life skills for their all-rounded development. The project is being proposed jointly by staff from the Department of Applied Social Sciences (APSS), the Department of Computing, the School of Hotel and Tourism Management (SHTM), the School of Design (SD), and the Pao Yue-kong library. The project will initially target a number of programs and modules which directly affect over 1000 students in 4 different departments or schools. Our Objectives ...The respective objectives of the four different functional spaces are listed below:
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