Online education is not only offered by usual online universities that we have in the web now, in fact CNN, featured the education opportunity. that is happening in the Second Life, a very popular 3-D virtual world since 2003 with more than 2 million people from around the globe.
It is indeed amazing to know that there are more than 50 schools and educational institutions that set up structure in the virtual world and are currently exploring ways that they can be used to promote and proliferate learning.
Rebecca Nesson, for instance is leading a class that is jointly offered by Harvard Law School and Harvard Extension School in the virtual world of Second Life. Nesson conduct class lectures in Second Life as well as office hours for extension students. In Second Life, there are also several class-related events that are likewise available to the public which can be anybody who has a broadband connection.