The use of New Technologies in Education: some proposals on designing an entrepreneurship course using Second Life® Paula Simões, J. R. de Carvalho, and M. Z. Rela University of Coimbra – Portugal Abstract — The use of new technologies can enhance learning, but we need to know how to use them and in what contexts. In this paper we will describe the design of an Entrepreneurship Course, in which the use of Second Life, a 3D Virtual World and Moodle, a Learning Management System are mandatory. We will describe a first approach on the using new technologies that can add value to the learning process and that can open possibilities that face-to-face classes does not offer anymore. Index Terms — Active Learning, e-Learning, Entrepreneurship, Second Life ——————————  —————————— 1 INTRODUCTION very medium has a specific language, a specific way of transmitting information. A radio program will not work on television, although it is technically possible to transmit it that way. When a new medium appears, we tend to use the language of the media we already know. We have several examples through media History. Early television was made in a radio's language form, early cinema was made through theatre language. "We impose the form of the old on the content of the new."[1] E This kind of evolution happens in what we call new technologies in general and in education specific technology. In the early days of the World Wide Web it was easy to find web pages full of text with a big scrollbar, until research showed that we do not read on the screen the same way we read on paper. In the early days of e- Learning, it was common to transfer the face- to-face classroom techniques of teaching to online distance education. It is only when we start to understand the specific language of the new medium that we can explore it in its full potential. One common example of this problem we observe is the use of a new technology in education because of the hype around it. It is not uncommon to see Universities gaining space in traditional media, like newspapers and television, because they started to use the last technology. Most of the times this reason to the use of the technology in education will conduct to the rejection of the technology by teachers and students, because in some cases technology is not adding value, only more work and time spent on the process. New technologies do not solve education problems, they are just tools. It is the way they are used that adds value to learning and the participants of the learning process, students and teachers, need to be aware of the value added by the news ways of learning and teaching. Another aspect we need to take into account is the fact that the students' profile is changing. Today's students are more comfortable with technology, incorporating it in an active way in their lives. Traditional education techniques will not work with these students, as “The Horizon report” states “Students’ views of what is and what is not technology are increasingly different from those of faculty. From small, flexible software tools to ubiquitous portables devices and instant access, students’ today experience technology very differently that faculty do, and the gap between student's view of technology and that of faculty is growing - 1 - ————————————————  P. Simões is with the Instituto Pedro Nunes of University of Coimbra, Portugal. E-mail: paulasimoes@ipn.pt.  J. R de Carvalho is with the Faculty of Letters of University of Coimbra, Portugal. E-mail: joaquim@dei.uc.pt.  M. Z. Rela is with the Department of Computer Science of Faculty of Science and Technology of University of Coimbra, Portugal. E-mail: mzrela@dei.uc.pt.