John Carroll University gives students a Second Life, too

The most recent issue of John Carroll University’s alumni magazine features professors who are utilizing the 3D virtual world Second Life as a virtual classroom, bringing together distant professors and students.

In this case, a professor working on a novel that included Second Life (Black Market Truth by Sharon Kaye, October 2008) included it in a proposal for a social justice seminal series called First Year Seminar. Other professors caught on to the idea and passed it along to students, using SL in 2008 as a base for discussing and generating ideas in implementing Utopian ideas.