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Linden Labs Raising Prices But Extending Discount for Current Users

Kapp Notes

As you may know, Linden, on October 4th, announced a plan to raise prices for educational and non-profit users of Second Life and not a little increase, a whopping doubling of the previous discount.

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Expelled: Woodbury's Second Life Silencing

Learning with e's

But, of course, as is true of the "real" world, Second Life does not come without its problems. Most recently, the brick-and-mortar university Woodbury was booted off Second Life —thousands of students were affected—by the virtual world's moderators, a company called Linden Lab. The university paid good money for it, too.

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Course Authoring and Rapid eLearning Tool Satisfaction

Tony Karrer

I don't know if I've seen this reported by the eLearningGuild , but their reports showed some interesting information about satisfaction levels reported by members on course authoring and rapid eLearning tool satisfaction levels. Second Life ReadyGo Web Course Builder Desire2Learn Learning Environ. RapidBuilder® (Software Simul.

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CAC: Penn State-Bart Pursel

Kapp Notes

Bart gave a list of different 3D worlds and provided a great comparison between a Internet Service Provider and Linden Labs (the company behind Second Life.) For example an island is analogous to a server.

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Predictions for 2010

Clark Quinn

I expect to see more inspired uses of technology to break out of the ‘course’ mentality and start facilitating performance more broadly, as organizational structures move learning from ‘nice to have’ to core infrastructure. The devices are out there!

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A whole new world

E-Learning Provocateur

Its currency is the Linden Dollar (L$) which avatars can use to buy virtual goods and even virtual property. Linden Dollars are bought with real money and can be exchanged back again. At first, I found all this is kind of hilarious, but of course Second Life was originally pitched to the entertainment market.

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Social and Semantic Web

Clark Quinn

the ability of Linden Labs to continue to expand Second Life capabilities as they grabbed market share). There are entailments, of course; taxonomies and ontologies need governance as do other content activities. For example, email took off once one email standard took hold and allowed different systems to interoperate.

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