A visual and audible voyeuristic look at people and their avatars...

This diversity of virtual world users shows a variety of reasons and expectations for using virtual worlds... from overcoming race and physical handicaps, to fun and leisure and building of self-confidence and making real dollars...

Interesting.

So, does this virtual world allow different learners with different and personal preferences for experience and learning to satisfy their perceived needs and also learn something? Or, does this new phenomena not so much support explicit or measurable objective and universal learning goals, but more give learners a way to build their selves, their sense of self-efficacy, their sense of personal control and freedom - those characteristics that support more effective learning in a more structured, traditional instructional environment?

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