Second Life in Education and Language Learning

Abstract

Or is it more of the same? Is Second Life the up and coming harbinger of collaboration and productivity online, or banal trap that is consuming resources and time best spent elsewhere? Is Second Life ideally matched with the open source nature of the read-write Web and social networking, next-stage in the level of conversations redirecting our interpersonal and societal interactions (including those in the marketplace) applauded in the Cluetrain Manifesto http://www.cluetrain.com/, or is it heading in the other direction, uncomfortably corporate and profiteering? And what if anything does it have to do with education? No matter where you think this particular virtual world is heading, the answer is, a lot!