Second Life: an overview of the potential of 3-D virtual worlds in medical and health education.

By Maged N. Kamel Boulos, L. Hetherington, Steve Wheeler. Health Information and Libraries Journal, 2007

739 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Health, Sociology and Political Science, Human-Computer Interaction

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Citations in the corpus

• Virtual world teaching, experiential learning, and assessment: An interdisciplinary communication course in Second Life (2009, background): “While SL has been shown to foster experiential learning, diligent planning and consideration must be given to integrating SL into the classroom (Boulos, Hetherington, & Wheeler, 2007; Martinez, Martinez, & Warkentin, 2007; Mayrath, Sanchez, Traphagan, Heikes, & Trivedi, 2007; Sanchez, 2007).”
• Health promotion in the digital era: a critical commentary. (2015, background): “Health promotion researchers have argued that these sites can be used for the dissemination of educational materials for lay people as well as providing virtual training environments for healthcare workers (Kamel Boulos et al., 2007; Beard et al., 2009; Ghanbarzadeh et al., 2014).”
• Using Technology to Meet the Challenges of Medical Education. (2015, background): “Second Life currently features a number of medical and health education projects (27, 28) and educators are in the process of evaluating the value of Second Life in different aspects of medical education (26, 29, 30).”
• Learning in a Virtual World: Experience With Using Second Life for Medical Education (2010, background): “Reports that describe the potential of Second Life for health professions education are common [18,35], but a recent comprehensive review [27] identified only 11 actual programs.”
• Virtual laboratories for education in science, technology, and engineering: A review (2016, neutral): “D eukaryotic cell, etc. (Boulos et al., 2007; Wiecha, Heyden, Sternthai, & Merialdi, 2010).”