FT.com / Business education - A second life for classrooms with vision

FT.com / Business education - A second life for classrooms with vision: "A second life for classrooms with vision
By Andrew Baxter
Published: February 29 2008 20:12 | Last updated: February 29 2008 20:12
For a brief period last year, Miklos Sarvary’s marketing class at Insead, in Fontainebleau, France, played host to foxes and other creatures as the human students took a back seat. The animals were not real, however, but virtual – they were the students’ avatars or alter-egos in Second Life, the three-dimensional online world.
Insead set up a campus on Second Life early last year, and is one of a handful of business schools that are exploring the virtual world’s potential as part of the never-ending quest for innovation in business education."