E-learning... what?

I'm expecting some flak as I say this: Second Life is the last thing I want incorporated into my curriculum. Even my SL character agreed as she watched the in-world webcast slouching in her seat.





You'll probably cuss me for complaining that I spent E-Learning Week in the virtual world as an avatar instead of listening to sleep-inducing droning over a boring webcast platform. But have you considered how this value-adds to the course content? Does spending an hour trying to maneuvere around the virtual NUS campus deem us more intelligent? NO. It'll be a good place to run away to and pretend to be someone you're not once in a while, but it's simply too agonising to use as a learning tool. And it wasn't any better off for the other modules; my workload doubled from the previous week, since everyone took the liberty to assign homework on the basis that we had more time to complete more stuff. Self-delusionaries.