Except it won’t really be a virtual world, but a virtual classroom.

It will miss out on all the great resources that are available in the rest of a true virtual world like Second Life, as it will miss out on the social networking opportunities, network effects and emergent behaviours you see on Second Life.

Don’t get me wrong – I can’t wait for the day we can host our own sims, and I think there is going to be a need for these more private spaces, especially in the education sector, and especially when young people are involved, but as this conversation goes on I think we need to be clear what it is we are talking about.

Keep an eye on the Open Grid part of the project – this will allow us to link up with other sims and form our own grids.