{"id":421,"date":"2008-07-04T01:33:11","date_gmt":"2008-07-03T16:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=421"},"modified":"2008-07-04T01:33:11","modified_gmt":"2008-07-03T16:33:11","slug":"waseda-university-opens-campus-in-second-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/waseda-university-opens-campus-in-second-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Waseda University opens campus in Second Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, one of Japan&#8217;s most renowned universities, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/index-e.html\">Waseda Daigaku<\/a>, opened a <a href=\"http:\/\/slurl.com\/secondlife\/Waseda%20University\/129\/125\/27\">virtual campus<\/a> in Second Life. Waseda aims at making it easier for their students to cooperate with those from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.princeton.edu\/\">Princeton University<\/a>, which has opened a campus on <a href=\"http:\/\/etc.princeton.edu\/sl\/\">an island in Second Life<\/a> last year.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/waseda_logo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-422\" title=\"waseda_logo\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/waseda_logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"361\" height=\"77\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nWaseda says it wants to explore the possibilities of conducting cross-cultural research in virtual worlds. Students are also able to access the the private university&#8217;s digital archive via Second Life. The virtual campus was designed and constructed by Tokyo-based web company <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobilefactory.jp\/\">Mobile Factory<\/a>.<br \/>\nBoth the Princeton and the Waseda campus can be visited by anyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, one of Japan&#8217;s most renowned universities, Waseda Daigaku, opened a virtual campus in Second Life. Waseda aims at making it easier for their students to cooperate with those from Princeton University, which has opened a campus on an island in Second Life last year. Waseda says it wants to explore the possibilities of&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/waseda-university-opens-campus-in-second-life\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Waseda University opens campus in Second Life<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17,24],"tags":[2960,4030],"class_list":["post-421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","category-news","tag-princeton","tag-waseda","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}