Second Life - a Virtual Learning Environment

A continuous concern in education field is to discover new technologies and methodologies in order to increase the quality of intellectual capital. In present, virtual technology expends learning opportunities and draws many participants. Software agents are met not only in real life, but also in virtual reality. Second Life environment enables its users to create/ design intelligent software agents (called avatars) that may interact. To these avatars, there may be attributed certain behaviors by means of an adequate Second Life language, called LSL (Linden Script Language). Avatar-based virtual world education is highly interactive comparing to distance learning and providing the same convenience of not having to travel while providing a more effective and more enjoyable experience. In this paper, the authors describe Second Lift virtual life environment and illustrates LSL's use on a robot called RoLyvEdu acting in a virtual classroom.