clipped from: www.itbusiness.ca "Virtual worlds have been used as training environments for many years," Hudson said. "In the past 30 years, if you've ever flown on an airplane, the pilot was probably trained in a virtual world – on a simulator."
Hudson calls it "practice in a non-threatening environment."
And one such environment that Hudson has used extensively to train his own students is Second Life, a 3-D virtual world created by its "residents", where users can socialize, connect and create using voice and text chat.
Read about how Hudson has turned Loyalist's Second Life experience into a business: Canadian college turns virtual world creation into real business venture