Online Learning inVirtual Environmentswith SLOODLE

Final Project Report

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Foreword

From the 31

of July 2007 till the 31

of October 2009, the Eduserv funded project 'Online Learning in VirtualEnvironments with SLOODLE' has been keeping me very busy. The extra few months added to the two yearsfunding (to accommodate delays with recruitment processes) vanished remarkably quickly. The demands of aproject which was almost as much about developing acommunity as it was about developing a piece of softwareproved greater than initially expected. As challenging as it hasbeen, it has also been incredibly rewarding – never more sothan when hearing about how SLOODLE is already being put touse to support classes using virtual worlds from around theglobe. We happily recognised early that supporting thecommunity would be vital to the success of SLOODLE itself – ascan be seen in the presentation used in the original applicationto Eduserv (left)Although the Eduserv project has now come to an end,SLOODLE continues to keep me busy – with regular conferenceand workshop presentations in both physical and virtual form. Community support and development remains asimportant today as it was, and can now be even more challenging – with SLOODLE tools now available on multiplevirtual world platforms, and with the approach of large scale installations on university faculty and central VirtualLearning Environments.I would like to thank all involved with SLOODLE over the past three years for their tremendous efforts, and mostespecially my co-founder Jeremy Kemp for his grand vision – without which SLOODLE would not be here at all.Daniel Livingstone (Primary Investigator),University of the West of Scotland,November 2009