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
VWEC Student Challenge
The fifth episode of The Deep Dive podcast is about how the professors and students took on the Virtual Worlds Education Consortium (VWEC) Student Challenge. Each Project Team had Irish, Turkish and Romanian students working together, mentored by a professor who supported them. The conversation, generated by Google NotebookLM from content on www.virtualenvironmentsmodule.com, is produced by Acuppa Tae in 2025.