01/21/10 — Using robot programming as a measure for teaching effectiveness, four senior academics in the UK and Japan are looking into how virtual environments such as Second Life contribute to high quality teaching and learning. Discovering whether virtual environments play an effective role in the way that humans learn is the focus of a research project based at a UK university in partnership with two academies in Japan. Four senior academics in the UK and Japan are looking into how virtual environments such as Second Life can contribute to high quality teaching and learning. Stewart Martin, a principal lecturer and head…