I am a strong proponent of online learning.  Our sponsors at Capella University provide online education and their latest press release highlights a book by Sara Oren describing the results of some of her studies on motivating people through ideologies.

I believe that online learning will evolve from the two dimensional web page world into virtual reality worlds like those found in second life.  In future virtual worlds we will be able to interact with both our teachers and tutors but also with other students from all around the world in live learning environments running twenty four hours a day.

Online learning is excellent but when you get stuck, you have to find a fix for yourself.  Sometimes if you can't do that, you waste a lot of time being stuck for several days.  In a virtual world you might be able to get help from anyone else in the virutal community and learn faster togeher.

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