Case Western Reserve University and Second Life building a private virtual world for college

by E Wayne Ross on May 8, 2009

Cleveland Plain Dealer: Case Western Reserve University and Second Life building a private virtual world for college

Students in Carolina Perera’s Spanish language class don’t need an airplane to visit Mexico, Spain or Colombia.

They go virtually.

Perera, a lecturer at Case Western Reserve University, assigns her students to use Second Life, an online 3-D virtual world, to visit other countries and interact with native Spanish speakers.