The sense of visual presence and of place in a 3D world can make socialising in a virtual world, a more 'human' experience than in 2D environments such as websites, e-mail, wikis and blogs, and even phone or video-conferencing. The paper discusses the role of 3D virtual worlds in supporting student team projects involving students who are geographically dispersed.
We investigate how a virtual world such as Second Life compares to other collaboration tools such as instant messaging or Skype and the challenges that students experience in becoming acquainted with and working in Second Life. Collaboration in these geographically distributed teams is virtual rather than through face-to-face interactions. This models the situation in many commercial sectors where work is increasingly being conducted across time zones and between multiple teams. This paper reports on a study into how a three-dimensional (3D) virtual world (Second Life) can facilitate socialisation and team working amongst students working on a team project at a distance. Selection and peer review under responsibility of Prof. The proposed system has been deployed successfully in more than one scenario as remote site education and local classroom enhancement. The system architecture is based on 3-Tier client-server architecture allowing natural improvement on features, such as, accessibility, reusability, and scalability. The learner accesses the teaching contents through the web browser.
The instructor uses the web browser to access the web server to achieve main functions that are permitted by the distance learning system administrator. The database represents the core of the system, which comprises users' management database and courses databases. The administrator manages the web-server using Internet Information Services (IIS 7.0) manager to connect to web server, Active Server Pages (ASP) script files to control the system, and SQL server 2008 for the database system to manage all data. The distance learning platform is implemented in the form of common client/server web application with three participants. The purpose of this work is to set up an effective environment for learning. It consists of web-based course-authoring and a distance learning management system. This paper proposes a web framework addressing the distance learning scenario.
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