Practical Learning in Virtual Worlds: Confronting Literature with Health Educators

In a radically changing educational world with rapid technological advances, educators need to adapt to new learning styles. This study investigates the use of Second Life (SL) within the Virtual World (VW) environment by healthcare educators as a method to enhance teaching and learning.A case study design ascertained the views of healthcare educators to determine relationship variables of VW SL initiatives.The findings reveal healthcare educators had limited expertise in using SL, but recognised its usefulness in bridging the theory/practice gap especially for nursing and midwifery training. The findings confirmed educator