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Virtual Travel in Second Life: Understanding Eighteenth-Century Travelogues through Experiential Learning
- Pedagogy
- Duke University Press
- Volume 14, Issue 2, Spring 2014
- pp. 225-250
- Article
- Additional Information
This article argues for the use of experiential learning to teach eighteenth-century travel literature to undergraduates. Exploring the three-dimensional virtual world of Second Life, students wrote their own travelogues and reflected on the ways in which the experience affected how they analyzed travelogues for the rest of the semester.