Tonight, I venture into Second Life, in my latest example of coming to the party a day late. I will report more I am sure after a sleepless night.
Some interesting statistics from Second Life, as of 8.13.2007. By the way, that is real money they are referring to below:
Total Residents:
8,823,159
Logged In Last 60 Days:
1,629,489
Online Now:
43,996
US$ Spent Last 24h:
$1,115,893
LindeX Activity Last 24h:
$209,768
My name is Michael Sean Gallagher. I am a Lecturer in Digital Education at the Centre for Research in Digital Education at the University of Edinburgh. I am Co-Founder and Director of Panoply Digital, a consultancy dedicated to ICT and mobile for development (M4D); we have worked with USAID, GSMA, UN Habitat, Cambridge University and more on education and development projects. I was a researcher on the Near Futures Teaching project, a project that explores how teaching at The University of Edinburgh unfold over the coming decades, as technology, social trends, patterns of mobility, new methods and new media continue to shift what it means to be at university. Previously, I was the Research Associate on the NERC, ESRC, and AHRC Global Challenges Research Fund sponsored GCRF Research for Emergency Aftershock Forecasting (REAR) project. I was an Assistant Professor at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (한국외국어대학교) in Seoul, Korea. I have also completed a doctorate at University College London (formerly the independent Institute of Education, University of London) on mobile learning in the humanities in Korea.