Dr. Vi Maeers, Director of the Centre for Teaching and Learning at the University of Regina, interviewed Sandra Bassendowski on her views about designing and implementing what she refers to as a "3e Teaching and Learning Environment." You can also read about this approach in the following article - Bassendowski, S. (2010). Paperless Teaching and Learning Spaces. The Teaching Professor, 24(1), 5.
The purpose of the research project was to develop inter-professional learning experiences on Second Life for students from the two professions (education and nursing) that were designed to provide a balance among experiential learning, guided mentoring, and collective reflection. This video demonstrates a virtual middle years’ school classroom that was created where student-participants had an opportunity to plan, in an inter-professional manner, a classroom environment for elementary aged students with Sensory Integration Dysfunction (SID), as well as promoting learning tools conducive to optimal sensory self-regulation for all children.