Educators, take this survey about VW use during pandemic

Kay McLennan, OpenSim educator and professor at the Tulane School of Professional Advancement is holding a survey to determine how educators are changing their use of virtual worlds and virtual reality during this coming academic year in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

“As evidenced by educator participation in annual Open Simulator Community Conferences, published works, and other sources, it appears a noteworthy group of educators use virtual world and virtual reality educational simulations as one of their teaching strategies,” she told Hypergrid Business. “Still, despite advances in simulation technologies, it seems like educator use of virtual simulations is growing at a slow rate — or is even stagnating.”

This survey is intended to see if the large-scale move to online learning accelerated by the pandemic may have also awaked renewed interest in virtual worlds, she said.

Educators can take the anonymous survey here.

“If a large enough group of educators respond to the survey, the data collected from the survey will be detailed in a second article in Hypergrid Business,” she added.

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Hypergrid Business editor and publisher Maria Korolov is a science fiction novelist. During the day, Maria Korolov is an award-winning freelance technology journalist who covers artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and enterprise virtual reality. See her Amazon author page here and follow her on Twitter, Facebook, or LinkedIn, and check out her latest videos on the Maria Korolov YouTube channel. Email her at maria@hypergridbusiness.com. Her first virtual world novella, Krim Times, made the Amazon best-seller list in its category. Her second novella, The Lost King of Krim, is out now. She is also the publisher of MetaStellar, a new online magazine of speculative fiction.