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I recently sat through a talk on how second life is being used as a teaching method in a CS course, its no where near dead, people are finding more ways to utilise it

SL is the first iteration, there are many new ones coming along soon

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If a college was using Second Life for "teaching", I'd quit then and there. Have you ever even tried it? The controls are beyond awful.

If they did it in place of a real class, I'd quit too. But I'm always open to a free "Come here if you want to learn X from Professor Zed" so long as "X" is interesting enough.

Lack of a physical whiteboard might make things tricky though.

they showed me a video of how cpu operated.. but they built it using second life.

It was at a barcamp that i attended.. its not for me but hey, anything that may get more students on cs courses here cant be a bad thing

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