The Potential Adoption of Second Life as a Platform for Learning

Background

A student-centred teaching pedagogy where the educator engages the student in the teaching process promotes active and authentic learning. Hence, the ability of teachers and students to project themselves into the learning space is an important factor in establishing a successful learning transaction (Warburton, 2009). Today, there is a shift in the way of teaching and learning that is different from the traditional ways of teaching and learning. This shift is motivated by the development and integration of new technologies that support new learning styles and interactive learning environment (Goodchild & Speed, 2019; Harris & Rea, 2019). Some educators and researchers have thus declared the traditional teaching and learning techniques as being inadequate to motivate the new generation of learners (Olasoji & Henderson-Begg, 2010). This is because they believe that today’s generation of learners requires learning processes and environments that are flexible, innovative, fun and fast. To provide such environment, Keelan, Ashley, Morra, Busch, Atkinson, and Wilson (2015) and Partala (2011) believe that the adoption of VW and VR technology into learning processes is important.