<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>I am with Tom on this one. For many educational uses, adapting and changing objects is not needed. Of course there are educational uses where adapting and changing objects is critical, however many (most?) educational sims I visited in SL did not rely on students working together to create things, and there are plenty of uses where it is simply not needed. Simulations are a perfect example and an area where Unity excels over SL or OpenSim. I built some fairly involved simulations in SL and have since essentially abandoned the platform and switched to Unity. </div><div><br></div><div>As has been said many times, SL/OpenSim is great for collaborative content creation. If you are doing that then sticking with SL/OpenSim makes perfect sense. If you don't need your students to work together and make widgets on the fly, then Unity might be a better choice. </div><div><br></div><div>It is all about using the right tool for the job.</div><div><br></div><div>Doug Danforth</div><div><br>On Jul 19, 2014, at 1:02 PM, Dr Ramesh Ramloll <<a href="mailto:r.ramloll@gmail.com">r.ramloll@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jul 19, 2014 at 12:45 PM, Tom <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tom.willans@bessacarr.com" target="_blank">tom.willans@bessacarr.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">For many educational uses adapting and changing objects is not needed. </blockquote></div><br>I respectfully beg to differ. This is the core of the my research efforts. A learning environment needs to provide user level tailorability from the core. The fact that it is not available does not mean that it is not needed. I cannot count how many times, subject matter experts felt that their teaching is being canned by the environment, or that students find their expression (through actions) limited. This is the result of extensive evaluation on the ground, both from an ethnographic evaluation perspective and for a user level evaluation perspective. I hope to publish these findings soon (well after I get some time away from writing grant proposals or doing actual building work)<br>
<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><font color="#999999">'Consider how the lilies grow. They do not labor or spin.'</font><br><b>Rameshsharma Ramloll</b> PhD, CEO CTO DeepSemaphore LLC, Affiliate <i>Research Associate Professor</i>, Idaho State University, Pocatello, ID 83209 Tel: 208-240-0040<br>
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