December 7, 2007
Campuses in Second Life Are Second-Rate, Author Says
Digital campuses are drab, and Second Life is a dubious venue for online instruction. That's the message from Peter J. Ludlow, a professor of philosophy at the University of Toronto, to colleges with campuses in the virtual world Second Life.
It's a scathing assessment from a scholar who is ordinarily an enthusiast of virtual environments, who founded a Web-based tabloid newspaper about Second Life, and has just come out with a book about his journalistic escapades in this make-believe
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