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School, Virtually: Higher Education Gets a Second Life

By Megan Burks
San Diego CityBeat | July 23, 2008
Professors shrouded in virtual alter egos may one day become commonplace as universities turn to online technologies to cope with increasing enrollment, decreasing budgets and a diversifying student body. Second Life by Linden Labs is the cutting edge of tools being tapped by academia. But new professorial cliches are the least significant of changes forcing scholars to take a critical look at where higher ed might be headed.
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Tags: Education, academia, higher education, Second Life, computers & technology, virtual reality

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