Students
What will a VLE offer you as a student?
​A Virtual Learning Environment or VLE will offer you the chance to learn in a fully imagined virtual world complete with physics and integration with all of your most commonly used social media outlets. A VLE will give you the opportunity to work collaboratively with students from all around the world. You will have the opportunity to manage your learning, to create an experience that is unique to you while still being connected to your peers and your professors from anywhere you have a computer and internet access. A VLE has the potential to connect you with students from across the globe in a realtime , or an asynchronous manner depending on time zones and your course set up. It is our hope that a VLE will provide you with a rich and robust educational experience where you can learn by creating meaning through various projects and experiences not afforded on other distance education platforms. We will use Second Life as the example from which this is all possible. Please see below what to expect and how to get started in Second Life.
What to expect in Second life
Second life will offer you the opportunity to attend class virtually synchronously or asynchronously depending on your course's set up. It offers an immersive experience where you can interact through chat or voice conversations with both your instructor(s) and also colleagues. You may have the opportunity to create and experience multimedia content from VR /AR tours, replicated environments, interactive forums and collaborative platforms for project completion. Second life could be the digital life domain that propels your academic career to global levels.
How to get started
You can begin to explore the virtual world that is second life and create your free account. In order to participate you need to download the appropriate version of Second life for you computer. See our technology requirements page if you are unsure.
Beginning in Secondlife is as easy as a simple download and an account set up. If you visit
How to navigate in Second Life
Second Life does not just throw you to the wolves expecting you have any kind of gaming knowledge there are a series of built in tutorials at the outset to guide you. Watch the video to the right to see how it looks.