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- Where you work:
- The Sloan Consortium
- About Me:
- Kathleen S. Ives, D.M. has worked in online technology for over 20 years and serves as The Sloan Consortium's Director, Online Education. Formerly, Dr. Ives oversaw all forms of alternative instruction at Quinsigamond Community College in Worcester, MA (distance learning, accelerated programming). She teaches online for University of Phoenix and Axia College of Western University, and in an accelerated environment for working adults at both Regis College in Weston, MA and the University of Phoenix, Greater Boston Campus. Dr. Ives began her career at CBS and helped to develop the service that evolved into Prodigy. She then spent fourteen years designing and implementing consumer online information services, first at AT&T and then at Verizon. Dr. Ives sits on the Massachusetts Department of Education's Distance Learning Advisory Board for Adult Basic Education. Dr. Ives has degrees in communication, communication management, and organizational leadership from the University of California at Davis, the University of Southern California, Annenberg School of Communication, and the University of Phoenix-Online, respectively.
- Favorite Places in Second LIfe:
- New Media Consortium
Metaversed
Clever Zebra
- Website:
- http://www.sloan-c.org
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Architecture and Design
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Virtual Journalism
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Academic Researchers
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Second Life Analytics
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Reuters Second LIfe News
OpenSim charts path away from Second Life
OpenSim looks and feels very much like Linden Lab's Second Life. But top OpenSim developers see a future where their software is a generic platform for 3D software, hopefully interoperable with the Second Life Grid but not necessarily resembling it.
Blog: Avatars beware: Private investigators scouring Second Life
Be careful, that avatar on your sim could be a real-life private investigator sent in to report on what you're up to in your Second Life.
Microsoft eyes integration between OpenSim and Windows Live ID
No one's really sure yet how avatar identities will be managed in a chaotic world filled with thousands of interoperable OpenSim grids. But Microsoft believes it has a solution: its own Windows Live ID.
Blog: Gibson guitars enters Second Life
If Second Life isn't effective for real world marketing, no one told high-end guitar manufacturer Gibson.
Interview: Linden prepares for an OpenSim future
A future where the Second Life Grid is a minor player in a sprawling Metaverse of thousands of competing virtual worlds sounds like a bad outcome for Linden Lab. But company executives say that's exactly the plan.
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