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Highlights the tendency to recreate the victorian, traditional classroom in Second Life and offers some quick examples of alternative experience

"Second life does provide social presence through the avatars we use, lots of opportunities for role play (let's face it, it is at a minimum a role play game), and yes it is immersive, allowing you to experience human from inside the cell walls or visit a detailed simulation of the Cistine Chapel. But the real power of Second Life as a virtual venue for your teaching and learning is the ability to translate real content into something really exciting and powerful. That of course is where the difficulty lies isn't it?"

Good tool for your Blackboard Course / eLearning students to create profile avatars

Health-care facilities are discovering that practicing in the virtual world can have major benefits in real life....

The Second Life Official Site and place to download the software