Despite the impressive work of Constance, JSB, and others, to the best of my knowledge no one has ever designed and implemented a university course as a massively multiplayer role-playing game. In addition to helping students gain a working knowledge of the field of open education (i.e., knowledge they can actually put to work), this course is a design experiment exploring the effectiveness of running a university course as a massively multiplayer role-playing game.
SEcond Life relationships spilling over into the real world
Working Lunch's Rob Pittam meets a company which only has offices in the virtual world of Second Life.
Teaching in virtual environments can be very productive, says Bill Thompson.
second life, virtual worlds, lively, all not going so well, but investment continues
LONDON, England (CNN) -- A British couple who married in a lavish Second Life wedding ceremony are to divorce after one of them had an alleged "affair" in the online world.
Once again, Second Life is good for more than just virtual porno theatres!
A team of University of Florida computer engineers and scholars has used the popular online world Second Life to create a virtual Chinese city, one that hands a key to users who want to familiarize themselves with the sights and experiences they will encounter as first-time visitors.