Holyrood Park: a virtual campus for Edinburgh - Hamish McCleod, University of Edingburgh

This talk is from the inside - a constructivist perspective.
SL offers: social activity > reflection > surprise (disequilibrium) > new learning.
It's like and unlike RL - that's useful. It's not a game but playful.
They have an island and a project around it: Vue (Virtual University of Edinburgh).
Posting photos from RL using mobile phones sent into SL where they are mounted on surfaces.
So you could have students collecting images to discuss in SL (his example unknown plants to be discussed by plant students!).

• redefining learning spaces - physical and virtual
• highlighting active learning (stud gen)
• highlighting issues of identity
• learning as becomong - safety adopting professional identities

Issues for us:
legal - inst/provider relationship

• data processor or data controller
• risk assessment and guidance; liability

system requirements

• processor
• bandwidth
• etc