IRES

 

Mission, Vision, Values and Goals

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Mission

The mission of the International Second Life (SL) Education Research Society is to provide a venue for participants of Second Life involved in teaching, learning and research to explore, develop and disseminate resources for SL participants by SL participants.

 

Values

 

The society members value:

 

  • The need for an inter-institutional and interdisciplinary society emerging from the possibilities that Immersive Worlds such as SL may present.

  • The need for members of Real Life (RL) institutions to collaborate and shareknowledge and best practices in the areas of teaching, learning and research 

  • The development of communities of learners and practitioners in their collaborative endeavors

  • The society as an independent entity not related to Real Life Education Institutions

  • All participants for their knowledge and skills and participants' journey toward 'meaning making' and 'understanding' of Immersive Worlds for teaching, learning and research purposes.

 

Goals:

 

The Society goals include the following:

 

  • disseminate resources for SL participants by SL participants

  • Showcase Immersive World Research

  • Provide resources for conducting research in Immersive Worlds

  • Offer guest speaker events pertaining to SL Research 

  • Offer Guest speaker events pertaining to SL Pedagogy

  • Provide a forum for dialogue to develop global collaboration

  • Provide mentoring
  • Promote and provide information on Teaching, Learning and Research in Immersive Worlds such as Second Life

 

 

Note: The community members recognize the need for faculty participation in this community especially faculty responsible for supervision of graduate students. Faculty supervisor participation is not only recommended but imperative for graduate students to be successful in completing their programs.  

 

(Copyright April 2007 by permission of Zana Kohime/Marlene Brooks)

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