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<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p>\nIMAGE: Second Life resident looking at snow falling on the Quidditch pitch of the nighttime VWER Campus, 2010.<\/span><\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n This is some of what I call my “kick out writing” that I did not include in some recent published writing. It starts:<\/p>\n The In 2003, #SecondLife<\/a> The arrival of the metaverse would have to wait a little while longer.<\/p>\n ~<\/p>\n I just lean back in my chair and wax poetic sometimes. \ud83d\udcba \u270d <\/p>\n Happy 20th Birthday Second Life <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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\n promise of the metaverse in education is like a mirage in the desert.
\nEducators seem to be forever awaiting the arrival of the metaverse but
\nstill not yet embracing those technologies.<\/p>\n
\n launched as an immersive persistent virtual world. Just three years
\nlater, educators were publishing about their pioneering efforts on the
\nplatform. Kemp & Daniel Livingstone<\/a> (2006) suggested pairing Second Life with a learning management system (LMS), a suggestion familiar to #instructionaldesigners<\/a>
\n of the Internet age. In 2007, the word “metaverse” first appeared in
\neducational publications (Tilili, 2022). The popularity of virtual
\nworlds briefly increased between 2007 and 2010. As cited in Warburton
\n(2009), Kirriemuir estimated that \u201cthree quarters of UK universities are
\n estimated to be actively developing or using Second Life.” This
\nadoption would wane by 2013 however after educational discounts were
\ndiscontinued and the initial fervor of virtual spaces gave way to empty
\nbuildings and virtual ghost towns. <\/p>\n