Corporate Use of a Virtual World
for Training Commercial Insurance Agents
Situated learning, communities of practce
By: Donna Yager
This project is a culmination of the design and development of a virtual world for training Commercial Insurance Agents called ‘Commercial New Producer Program’ and uses a Google site as a student portal for course materials as well as a virtual world, called Training Town, as the tool for meeting within our community of practice.
- Watch on YouTube
- Malet Students Virtual Showcase---poster session or presentation for the new century
Training Town
- Web Address: https://www.kitely.com/virtual-world/Donna-Yager/Training-Town
- HG Address:
- grid.kitely.com:8002:Training Town
- Training Town will be used in place of a WebEx environment so that students can perform exercises together that would otherwise require a face-to-face interaction.
This training used the pedagogical foundations of:
Arrival point in Training Town
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- Is that a meeting room inside that building?
Meeting tables
in the central building
Brownstone houses with offices
for practice meetings with clients
- Learners could play both roles.
- Playing the role of client could develop insight into the client's thinking.
Arranged as an office
- Learners could play both roles.
- Playing the role of client could develop insight into the client's thinking.
- Role play in education
- Role-playing (Wikipedia)
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Visit me on the web
- Drop by my web offices Weekdays: 12:-12:30 Central time (US)
- Cybalounge and 3DWebWorldz (Orientation room)
- I will be in both places, so you may need to speak to get my attention.
- Web-worlds, 3D virtual worlds running in a browser. Summary
- And we can visit the Writer's Workshop on the Web
- Don't register -- enter as guest.
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Wonderful!
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