Top 100 Tools: Second Life Ranks at #41

Linden Lab's Second Life jumped from last year's position at 101 to 41 in this year's survey of the top 100 learning tools "for creating, delivering and managing learning and performance support solutions" and "for personal learning and productivity, for sharing resources, as well as group collaboration (also includes some enterprise tools)". The directory created by the survey contains over 2,400 freeware/open source and commercial tools.

What is most interesting about these results is that Second Life is pretty much there alone amongst tools like Microsoft Office, Google Earth, the iPod, social bookmarking sites and Firefox.

Top 100 Tools: Second Life: "TOP TOOLS
Second Life

Second Life is a virtual world - a highly imaginative, creative world.  Create an avatar and explore this second world.  It is not a game; in fact there are all kinds of opportunities here - for learning, gaming and training"

(Via Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies.)

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