Learning in Virtual Worlds

I’m just back from the Educause 2008 conference, and as always I find myself overwhelmed with the sheer bulk of information I encountered.   I’d like to share a few highlights, however:
Just a quick post about a new book, The Tower and the Cloud – Higher Education in the Age of Cloud Computing,  edited by Richard [...]

The time is now to build and to experiment and to learn what it may mean to perform campus master planning when the master plan includes virtual spaces. We need to learn what it means to regulate access to institutional resources when those resources reside in virtual spaces. We need to understand the nature and [...]

It is Monday morning here in New Zealand, Sunday in the U.S., and I just tried to log in to Second Life.  But Second Life had 67,333 current logins and could handle no more load.  They were at their user limit!  C’mon, how un-scalable is this platform?
I recently asked Linden Labs how I could get [...]

Kia ora.  After several weeks of development the new Medical Centre is starting to take shape.  Most of the ‘build’ to date has been around the design and physical structure.  For those interested in SL building, this very large structure (50×50×50 metres) was made with mega-prims and required less than 50 prims.  This did not [...]