Online Learning Update

October 23, 2010

Academics Discuss Mass Migration of Online Learning Virtual Venue From Second Life

Filed under: Online Learning News — Ray Schroeder @ 12:01 am

By Jeff Young, Chronicle of Higher Ed

Officials at one discussion session here at the Educause conference yesterday spent an hour debating whether or not they should relocate their campuses—taking all the buildings, quads, and people and carefully moving them elsewhere. The focus of the session was virtual worlds, and the academics were discussing whether to take their virtual campuses out of Second Life in protest, after the company that runs the online environment announced the end of a generous education discount.

http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/academics-discuss-mass-migration-from-second-life/27672?sid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en

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