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I remain totally unimpressed, Roland, sorry.
Show me real education on something other than digital arts itself and that is *continuing education” — not “continuing professional education” which is something very, very different.
CPE, like CLE (for lawyers) are specialized course units for *already credentialed professionals* who *already have degrees* for them to say current in their field or pick up certification in this or that specialized topic.
The Internet in general, and the revolution of video tapes, were great boons for this very specialized sector of professional education, and VWs make great sense, too. But it’s a corporate use for credentialled persons — it is NOT what “continuing ed” means — which is persons without credentials being able to come online and get a credit by paying money and eventually acquire the professional credentials hitherto doled out only by physical presence (and for good reason, given the pitfalls of anonymous online presence).
I dunno, somebody having a blog that is exploring is not a class.
I really want to know, out of the hundreds and hundreds of educational boondoggles being funded and explored and experienced in SL now, how many of them really offer credits? How many of them are about anything separate from Second Life/digital stuff itself?
good questions. I try to get some answers and figures. I think there is great potential here, but institutions have to want to realize it. I guess that, just as the internet is challenging for mainstream media, education in virtual worlds could be challenging for the business models of universities, if they would want to really try radical experiments.
You make some good points and you arte correct – our intent is to offer CPE Continuing Professional Education, in fact our first attemtps will be on June 18th (see our blog for details http://www.cpaisland.com).
The other area that may be of interest is our attempts to bring together a community of accounting educators on our education pavillion which gives professors a free kiosk with links to their university in order to showcase various accounting programs to prospective accounting majors.
For us it really is about trying to meet the new generation where they are and having a bit of fun (which is not always used in conjunction with CPAs – 🙂