Interesting article in The Guardian’s education supplement this week on SL – a conference was set up called Education Without Boundaries. The journalist states that the informal networking sessions were the most useful part of it – which kinda mirrors RL conferences! Something else that made me smile was the fact that the virtual conference centre decor was the “naff, over-elaborate kind you get in conference hotels” (see pic below)- and was bizarrely familiar apart from turning around to see another delegate with a snake around his neck…
Read the full story at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/mortarboard/2008/nov/11/highereducation-secondlife