The 3D Warehouse: Using Second Life to develop learners: an industry context

Dr. Debbie Holley Anglia Ruskin University

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Small grant from the Chartered Institute for Logistics and Transport.

The Institute:

- have students across the world, studying at a distance and sometimes in isolation.

- aim to offer their students access to as many ‘real life’ opportunities as possible

November 2010

but site visits with students are problematic.

- Health and Safety regulations

- Secrecy and security

- outsourcing of warehousing

November 2010

Solution – build an online virtual warehouse.

Why Second Life?

- freely accessible to visitors

- can visit individually or in groups

- media rich programmable environment allowing interactivity

- students can access materials (.pdf files relevant to the subject – the CILT Knowledge Centre arranged copyright and permissions for us)

November 2010

Prototyping approach - v1

Prototyping approach - v1

Prototyping approach – v2

Prototyping approach – v2

Prototyping approach – v2

Prototyping approach – v2

Lost our key industry contact!

The CILT to the resue – they ‘partnered’ uswith Clipper Logistics, a large fashion and retail specialist.Clipper head office facilitated our subsequent work with the depot in Selby, East Yorkshire and arranged a visit.

We also enrolled Chris O’Reilly, London Metropolitan University, a multimedia expert and film specialist to lead on filming and

construction of accompanying interactive web-based resources.

New Year 2011

Visit to Clipper warehouse

Visit to Clipper warehouse

Visit to Clipper warehouse

Visit to Clipper warehouse

Visit to Clipper warehouse

Visit to Clipper warehouse

Scrapped the earlier SL prototypes and based the new virtual warehouse on Clipper Selby to include:

- even greater racking height- loading bays- conveyors- movement and noise- people

Summer 2011

Chris O’Reilly developed the accompanying web site:

http://learning.londonmet.ac.uk/epacks/clipper

The site is now live, loaded up on the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport website with all the project documentation, disseminated via the Institute Journal and their CMS database to

University lecturers throughout the country. We are currently gathering data from site visitors for evaluation

Autumn 2011- Summer 2012

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