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Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Research suggests distance online learning can outperform traditional classroom study - Anthony Doesburg, New Zealand Herald
For a growing number of students, going off to class doesn't mean sitting down at a desk in a schoolroom or lecture theatre. It takes place in the virtual world of Second Life, where school's in at an hour that suits you - and you can fly to class. Second Life is the five-year-old online creation of San Francisco company Linden Lab and, at last count, was inhabited by more than 13 million residents. Education is just a small part of what goes on there. Essentially, whatever preoccupies people in the real world is also being engaged in by the avatars, or virtual beings, in Second Life.
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