The Deep Dive
The Deep Dive is a series of short podcasts exploring the undergraduate university module “Virtual Environments: Is one life enough”. The class, developed by the Second Life academic Acuppa Tae (John O’Connor) in 2009, has been offered continuously since then by Technological University Dublin in Ireland; and is delivered entirely online in this virtual world. Each episode concentrates on a different theme from the module and considers the impact on students. The podcast is a conversation generated by Google NotebookLM based on the website www.virtualenvironmentsmodule.com. It is produced by Acuppa Tae in 2025.
The Deep Dive
Teaching in a virtual world
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This first episode of The Deep Dive podcast gives an overview of the award-winning university module offered at Technological University Dublin since 2009. “Virtual Environments: Is one life enough?” introduces undergrads to the art of working collaboratively online. All classes are taken in the virtual world Second Life so that participants are immersed in practice from the begining as they explore topics ranging from the development of online communities and relationships to virtual identities.