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Saturday, August 02, 2008
Higher education gets a Second Life - Megan Burks, San Diego City Beat
Professors shrouded in virtual alter egos may one day become commonplace as universities turn to online technologies to cope with increasing enrollment, decreasing budgets and a diversifying student body. Second Life by Linden Labs, a three-dimensional virtual world complete with a self-sufficient economy and real-estate market and its own wave of crime, is the cutting edge of tools being tapped by academia. But new professorial clichés are the least significant of changes forcing scholars to take a critical look at where higher education might be headed.
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