Drexel University professor Jean-Claude Bradley can log in from his lab or home and teleport to his organic chemistry classroom, fly around his three-dimensional molecular models and teach wearing a cat suit. Bradley, 38, uses the virtual world of Drexel Island — an e-campus shaped like a dragon, Drexel’s mascot. “We chose a dragon shape to distinguish ourselves. No one else has done anything like it,” said Bradley. This online Drexel universe — which gets 100 visitors daily — exists in Second Life, a program created by San Francisco-based Linden Labs in late 2003.
by Katie Stuhldreher
From TechNewsWorld Colleges Bring Learning to a Virtual World