The document discusses various 3D virtual worlds used for education, highlighting platforms like Second Life and their educational benefits, such as facilitating immersive environments and collaborative spaces. It lists numerous educational institutions across the globe that are incorporating these technologies into their learning frameworks. Additionally, it mentions events like the American Cancer Society's Relay for Life within these virtual settings, illustrating successful fundraising and awareness efforts.

1. 3D Virtual Worlds for Education

2. MUD Interface

3. AVATAR (MUD)

4. WOW http:// www.worldofwarcraft.com /

5. There.com http:// www.there.com /

6. Forterra http:// www.forterrainc.com

7. Active Worlds www.activeworlds.com

8. Croquet Anyone? http://www.opencroquet.org/

9. Perplex City (ARG) http://www.welovepuzzles.com/

10. Second Life Today

11. Second Life Today

12. But What is Second Life?

13. What Does It Bring to the Table for Learning?

14. Information/Awareness American Cancer Society mixed-reality event, Relay for Life, raised $40,000 in SL alone

15. Information/Awareness American Cancer Society Relay for Life

16. Immersive Environments

17. Data Visualization Read more about the weather map

18. Simple Simulations

19. Building Tools

20. Collaborative Spaces Collaborative architecture video on YouTube

21. Social Interaction

22. What Educators Are Already Doing Aarhus Business College: Aarhus , Denmark Arcada University of Technology: Helsingfors , Finland The Art Institute of California-San Diego San Diego, CA The Art Institute of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh , PA Audiocourses Music Production School: London, United Kingdom Australian Film TV and Radio School: Sydney, Australia Ball State University: Muncie, IN The Bay School of San Francisco: San Francisco, CA Beach College: Santa Barbara, CA Bentley College - Department of Natural and Applied Sciences: Waltham, MA Bradley University, Peoria, IL Bromley College of Further and Higher Education California State University - Pomona: Pomona, CA Central Missouri State University: Warrensburg, Missouri Central Piedmont Community College - Futures Institute: Charlotte, NC Colorado Mountain College: Glendwood Springs, CO Columbia University: New York, NY Dyersburg State Community College: Dyersburg, TN Elon University: Elon , NC Finger Lakes Community College: Canandaigua, NY Fullerton College: Fullerton, CA Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture University of Houston: Houston, TX Harvard University: Cambridge, Mass . Idaho State University: Pocatello, Idaho . Illinois State University: Normal, IL Indiana University: Bloomington, IN Insead Institut Ingemedia : Toulon, France Johnson & Wales University: Providence, RI & 5 Western States Kalamazoo Valley Community College: Kalamazoo, MI Leeds College of Art and Design: West Yorkshire, United Kingdom Leeds Metropolitan University: West Yorkshire, United Kingdom Lehigh Carbon Community College: Schnecksville, PA Loyalist College: Belleville, ON, Canada Mayville State University: Mayville, ND Minneapolis College of Art and Design: Minneapolis, MN Minnesota State Colleges and Universities Montana State University: Bozeman, Montana Nanyang Polytechnic: Singapore Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology: Nelson, New Zealand New York University - McGhee Division: New York, NY Newcastle University Newcastle upon Tyne, UK Northern Illinois University: DeKalb, IL Ohio State University: Columbus, OH Oklahoma City University: Oklahoma City, OK The Open University: Milton Keynes, UK Oregon State University: Corvallis, OR Otis College of Art and Design Los Angeles, CA Pellissippi State Technical Community College: Knoxville, TN Pennsylvania State University: (Various towns), PA Pepperdine Universtiy: Malibu, CA Platt (Media Arts) College San Diego : San Diego, CA San Diego State University: San Diego, Calif. San Francisco State University: San Francisco, CA Savannah College of Art & Design: Savannah, GA; Atlanta, GA; Lacoste , France Seton Hall University: South Orange, NJ Sheffield Hallam University: Sheffield, UK / Sogang University: Seoul, Korea Stanford University: Palo Alto, CA SUNY Empire State College: Saratoga Springs, NY Temple University: Philadelphia, PA Texas State University: San Marcos, Texas The Bay School of San Francisco: San Francisco, CA Thomas Jefferson University: Philadelphia, PA Trinity University: San Antonio, Texas Center for Distance Education, UAF Fairbanks, Alaska University of Bedfordshire Luton & Bedford, UK University of California Berkeley University of Cincinnati: Cincinnati, OH University of Colorado at Denver Medical Center: Denver, CO University of Connecticut: Hartford, CT University of Derby: Derby, UK University of Edinburgh: Edinburgh, Scotland, UK University of Florida: Gainesville, FL University of Massachusetts: North Dartmouth, MA University of Minnesota, School of Physics and Astronomy: Minneapolis, MN University of Missouri - Kansas City: Kansas City, Missouri University of Nevada, Reno: Reno, NV University of Paisley: Paisley, Scotland, UK University of Southern California: Los Angeles, CA University of Southern Denmark ( Syddansk Universitet ) University of Surrey: Guildford, UK University of Sydney: Sydney, Australia http:// www.utk.edu University of Texas at Dallas: Richardson, Texas University of Texas Medical Branch: Galveston, Texas University of Wales, Newport: Newport, Wales, UK

23. Discussions/Conferences

24. NOAA (Meteroa Island)

25. International Spaceflight Museum

26. NMC Campus

27. Life Sciences Building

28. Middletown

29. CyberOne Course Syllabus: http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/cyberone Course Wiki: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/cyberone/wiki One Student’s Blog: http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/lawgeek/

30. CyberOne

31. Ketchikan Dry Dock

32. Ketchikan Dry Dock

33. Rhetorica 135,229,39 Center for Distance Education, UAF