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Below are some examples of the benefits your organization may receive from creating a virtual presence:

• Increase recruitment by enabling national and international students to visit your facility by recreating the campus in the virtual world. You can also hold globally accessible open days to increase your organisations geographic reach.
• Increase the ease of communication between staff and students by developing interactive forums which can provide a location for live debates and discussion groups.
• Create a flexible service offering for distance learning allowing students to attend lectures virtually but still receive the interactive benefit of attending a lecture in real time.
• Create a globally accessible platform which will allow your organisation to showcase its educational and performing art and design talents.
• Build virtual worlds that reflect how locations appeared at certain times in history. Take students on a journey through time and space to any location. Make the journey to anywhere from the trenches of World War One to the centre of a planet.

See below some examples of how educational facilities have used virtual world technology:

Virtual Tours of Historic Buildings

Create tours where students can follow, or head off on their own.  Visit locations that no longer exist, experience sights and sounds no longer found.  This example is a guided tour of Aberdeen's Marischal College.

Formerly the seat of the ancient Marischal College and University of Aberdeen founded in 1593, the building was retained by the unified University of Aberdeen following its creation in 1860 by the merger of Marischal College and King's College, a university founded in 1495 in Old Aberdeen to the north of the modern Aberdeen city centre. The buildings of Marischal College continued to be used for general university purposes until recent times and were significantly rebuilt and expanded upon throughout this period. The construction of the modern college building began in 1835 and took its present form in the early part of the 20th century, following the demolition of previous buildings on the site. It is the second largest granite building in the world.

Linlithgow Palace circa 1564

The ruins of Linlithgow Palace are situated in the town of Linlithgow, West Lothian, Scotland, 15 miles (24 km) west of Edinburgh. The palace was one of the principal residences of the monarchs of Scotland in the 15th and 16th centuries. Although maintained after Scotland's monarchs left for England in 1603, the palace was little used, and was burned out in 1746. It is now a visitor attraction in the care of Historic Scotland.

This is how Second Places think it would have looked around the time of a visit of Mary, Queen of Scots in around 1564.

See the video below, or Click here to enter Linlithgow Palace 1564.

 Schools for the Future

Second Places has been involved with Schools for the Future for a long time, here is an example of a model from a construction company, where we import the CAD files and add textures, to make the models look more realistic.  This allows the construction company, the staff and the students to see a model from more directions than just the "artistic" impressions of images.

Click here to enter the School of the Future Model.

To find out more as to how Second Places can help your organisation to meet its needs please contact us.