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Using virtual world technology to deliver educational services

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posted on 2023-06-09, 06:49 authored by Linda A Macaulay, Kathleen Keeling, Debbie KeelingDebbie Keeling, Cliff Mitchell, Yin Leng Tan
Despite increasing educational use of immersive virtual environments for seminars, lectures and teaching related events, there is an absence of ceremonial events such as graduation. Graduation is not simply an ‘event’ but a cultural practice, a ritual, marking alife-transition point and public recognition of achievement. This case study reports a recent innovation in the delivery of educational services in which university students take part in an official graduation using the virtual world technology, Second Life (http://?www.?secondlife.?com). This case study has previously been reported in Keeling et al., 2009.

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Publication status

  • Published

Publisher

Springer

Page range

125-128

Pages

231.0

Book title

Case studies in service innovation

Place of publication

New York

ISBN

9781461419716

Series

Service science: research and innovations in the service economy

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  • Business and Management Publications

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  • No

Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Editors

Linda Macaulay, Yin Leng Tan, Jennifer Wilby, Ian Miles, Liping Zhao, Babis Theodoulidis

Legacy Posted Date

2017-06-20

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