Jess’ E-Learning Blog

For the group assignment, one group made a wiki on the uses of virtual worlds in education. They mentioned that a benefit of virtual worlds is the anonymity, which can encourage shy individuals to express themselves, which I hadn’t thought of before. I definitely agree with this. When I have taught people, given a presentation or participated in groupwork, one of the persistent problems I have is group participation. So a virtual world which can increase participation would be very beneficial in that more ideas and knowledge could be passed along by people who have overcome their shyness.