Thomson NetG Second Life Corporate Training Campus

Netg is using Second Life to offer real-world enterprise training courses. The in-world campus mirrors the classrooms, labs, social spots and communication centers you would expect to find on any campus…and they are staffing some centers with mentors who act as guides and helpers for avatar students. 

In addition to courses with live instructors, Netg has virtual learning spaces for on-demand training with individualized media and streamed audio and video presentations or podcasts.  However at the students’ discretion, the media can also be a shared experience.

Okay. So cool - using cutting edge technology to teach techies tech things.

Yes, but what is really important here – is that Thomson Netg is teaching something more than Microsoft and Cisco certification to thousands of techies.  What they are teaching enterprise students is to expect media, training, learning and working spaces of the “immersive kind.”

We’re ever so surely moving to training our staffs through this type of immersive media for all sorts of cost and benefit reasons. Add to that the fact more than 50 academic institutions are training our future staffs in Second Life alone today.  It is a very logical extension that the people inside our organizations will very soon expect they can also operate in their jobs in these types of environments. 

The campus is open so you can easily investigate it in-world : Thomson 117/127/35

Or, get a ten-minute tour of Netg’s Second Life training center via Thomson NetG’s video on YouTube (10:41):

Comments

[Aconcerned Netizen]

And, unfortunately for those droves of techie trainees, unremittingly ugly. A decision to reduce distractions? A tiny budget? Failure of vision?