Those Auditors Love Second Life
If you need evidence of the enthusiasm that virtual worlds can enable, observe this labor-of-love: an accounting-themed Valentine’s music video in Second Life.
Journals of Negative Results
A new journal for unpublished results is starting up, making a grand total of 3 such journals across all academic fields.
All Current Evidence for Second Life in Business and Education
I decided to examine the full extent of scholarly literature supporting (or not) the use of virtual worlds for education and training. It’s not a long list.
More Evidence for Video Games as Instructors
Consider this demonstrating what is perhaps the best evidence of transfer of training from a video game to the workplace that I have ever seen.
No One Trusts Statistics
People don’t trust statistics, and by extension, experts. But they used to. What’s changed?
Quick Bits No. 2
Teens spend over 50 hours a week on the Internet, Chuck Norris controls Facebook, rickets are on the rise, and a grad student excused from comps due to test anxiety all this week.