Articles and Whitepapers

Here are a number of articles, whitepapers and links to thoughts and ideas about Virtual Worlds and Learning in 3D environments.

Web Articles

Another Life: Virtual Worlds as Tools for Learning by Jay Cross, Internet Time Group; Tony O'Driscoll, IBM; and Eilif Trondsen, SRI Consulting Business Intelligence

Journal of Virtual World Research. This journal has freely available PDF articles describing the vast amount of work being done in virtual worlds. Recently, the journal featured a number of articles on using virtual worlds in the field of Healthcare.

Whitepapers

The Effects of Gaming on Socializing, Social Behavior, and Making Friends

EMERGING Technologies Center Nursing Education 2.0: A Second Look at Second Life

Seven Things You Should Know About Virtual Worlds

Recipe for Success with Enterprise Virtual Worlds

Virtual Worlds and Unified Communications Provide a Collaboration Platform for the US Intelligence Community

Real Life Teaching in a Virtual World

3D Learning and Virtual Worlds

Second Life: Virtual Worlds and the Enterprise

Serious Virtual Worlds: A Scoping Study

Virtual Worlds Research: A Conceptual Primer

Worlds for Study: Invitation - Virtual Worlds for Studying Real-World Business (and Law, and Politics, and Sociology, and....)