This work highlights Second Life® (SL) as a virtual education environment that supports immersion and presence, allows real-time teaching and discussion, and enhances the mentor/mentee relationship. Distance education can be unidirectional and flat. Evolving technologies are beginning to promote social interaction in distance education through virtual environments. Unlike traditional distance and online asynchronous education, multimodal spaces such as SL provide synchronous communication. We developed and tested a 3D learning environment for nursing students in SL. We simulated learning environments to promote individualized and group learning and synchronous communication that is necessary for effective learning. We present lessons learned from teaching in SL as well as evaluative feedback from students. The results suggest that 3D learning environments have the potential to bridge barriers such as isolation and foster interactivity and presence/immersion in online courses. Future work will focus on developing clinical scenarios to test procedural knowledge and critical thinking skills.
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