Second Life and Higher Ed

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University Business discusses the innovative ways colleges and universities are using the Second Life virtual realm for collaboration, instruction, promotion, and machinima creation in Sizing Up Second Life: Higher ed learns how to live in a virtual world.

“The greatest benefit of our Second Life campus has been as a marketing tool, really extending our brand out into a whole different channel,” he says. “Along with creating the campus, we also created a corresponding machinima video on YouTube that has had thousands of hits. That has done wonders in terms of throwing attention not just on our Second Life campus but on Ohio University as well.”

via Educause

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