1. http://www.le.ac.uk/SWIFT

2. “It’s a lot more realistic than you’d imagine” “Its really clean and very expensive looking” “Cool! Really realistic and representative of a real lab in the university!” “It looked very realistic; I didn’t think it would be quite that realistic, to be honest” “It was just like playing a video game, like the SIMs or something … I do feel comfortable in it [VW]”

3. http://www.le.ac.uk/SWIFT “There were a lot of things, like distilled water taps, that I’d never heard of before” “And safety rules I think, that she ran over, which we do normally go over in labs, but I felt like I was learning it more.” “When I first started labs in September I was really scared of going into the labs cause we did no [lab] work in biology in A-level... and if we had of had this induction it would have really helped”

4. http://www.le.ac.uk/SWIFT “If possible, next time we could do an actually experiment?” “I was hoping to use some of the equipment I had never actually used before but all we did was look at most of them” “There was, you know, inappropriate sort of content when I went to the welcome area when I tried it at home. But in the contained area it was really good.”

5. http://www.le.ac.uk/SWIFT 1)Use the VW for its strengths (virtual location, remote collaboration; meta-data) 2)Be clear on learning aims 3)Add detail according to need Building in Virtual Worlds

6. http://www.le.ac.uk/SWIFT 1)Most students had basic self-taught VW skills 2)Flying and clothes were difficult 3)Only teach critical skills Virtual World Training

7. http://www.le.ac.uk/SWIFT The virtual laboratory 1)Effective as a laboratory experience 2)Effective for learning and revising lab skills 3)Especially useful if no lab experience

8. http://www.le.ac.uk/SWIFT 1)Interaction between socialisation in the real and virtual worlds 2)Addresses real lab availability; new limit is student availability Using Virtual Worlds

9. http://www.le.ac.uk/SWIFT

11. SWIFT Second World Immersive Future Teaching Dr. Paul D Rudman Dr. Suzanne P Lavelle Prof. Gilly Salmon Prof. Annette Cashmore