My mate who works in IT here at the University of London found this job going at the University of Hertfordshire... he just sent me the link... sounds like a very interesting job, and pays pretty damn well too... £27-40K/$54-80K part-time!
Manager of the UH Virtual Campus in SecondLife
c£26,666 - £40,335 pa pro rata
Part-Time 0.6 FTE for two years
We are building a virtual campus for our university in SecondLife and we are seeking an enthusiastic person to take on the role of campus manager. The campus manager will be responsible for:
· Assisting the project board to devise a development programme for the virtual campus
· Working with departments in the university to devise a programme of activities and events to meet their educational and promotional requirements
· Working with the SecondLife team to run events, including the streaming and uploading of media.
· Organising internal workshops to familiarize staff with the potential of SecondLife
You should be educated to degree level or have equivalent work experience and you must have a knowledge of and enthusiasm for interacting in SecondLife and be able to manipulate electronic multimedia resources. You should be experienced in designing training materials and in running training programmes or workshops.
Sounds interesting, but if they can't even spell 'program' right, sounds like they should spend more attention on their 'real' campus, namely the English department, they spending resources on a virtual campus.
Sounds interesting, but if they can't even spell 'program' right, sounds like they should spend more attention on their 'real' campus, namely the English department, they spending resources on a virtual campus.
I have never really been that interested in SecondLife, but with the advent of Home on the PS3, I reckon that might change... I did, however, see a bit about SecondLife on a BBC programme on a Sunday morning called 'The Heaven and Earth Show', a decent weekly discussion about news/issues relevant to religion (come on, it kills the time until Countryfile!) and they showed that there are loads of virtual churches on SecondLife that have very real congregations... at that point I wondered how long it would be until universities jumped on the bandwagon and made virtual campuses... looks like this could be the tip of the iceberg!
Where have I been..... I had no idea what SecondLife was about. I think it's a great job offer, still can't imagine that someone would actually pay that kind of money annually for a virtual campus.....
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