Virtual Libraries and Education in Virtual Worlds

Bell, Lori; Lindbloom, Mary-Carol; Pope, Kitty; Peters, Tom

doi:10.1007/978-94-6091-299-3_18

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“…Second Life also provides opportunities for its residents to create virtual goods and services to sell, buy and trade to other residents using Linden dollars (Jennings & Collins, 2007), the currency that runs the Second Life economy which can be exchanged against real US dollars. Second Life provides enormous opportunities to imitate real world situations in a virtual environment, to name a few: reincarnation of ancient architecture and civilisations (Harrison, 2009); advertising and selling of real life commodities (Lui, Piccoli, & Ives, 2007); live music concerts (BBC, 2006;Walsh, 2006); experiencing complex medical procedures discounting dangerous outcomes (Thompson & Hagstrom, 2008); library services (Bell, Peters, & Pope, 2007); developing campuses (Lucia, Francese, Passero, & Tortora, 2009); and conducting classes and labs (Holmberg & Huvila, 2008).…”

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Adoption of Second Life in Higher Education

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Sukunesan

2013

International Journal of Virtual and Personal Learning Environments

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Second Life is a three dimensional multi-user virtual environment within the Web 2.0 suite of applications which has gained wide spread popularity amongst educators in the recent years. However, limited empirical research has been reported on the adoption of Second Life, especially within higher education. The majority of technology adoption studies concentrate on analysing effects of utilitarian variables on adoption of a new technology however one should also focus on the hedonic effects when it comes to the adoption of Web 2.0 technologies which are highly interactive, involving, multi-user and entertaining. In this paper, the authors analyse the effect of utilitarian and hedonic behaviours on adoption of Second Life in a higher education context. To achieve this goal the authors propose an extension to Davis’ Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) by including emotional and imaginative responses as hedonic behaviours and usefulness, ease-of-use and computer self-efficacy as utilitarian behaviours. Empirical evaluation of the proposed model suggests that hedonic behaviours, emotional responses in particular, emerged as the strongest predictors of Second Life adoption. The study findings further suggest that traditional technology acceptance approaches may fall short in being able to explain the usage of today’s highly interactive, multi-user and entertainment-oriented technologies.

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