Second Life

I need to know a lot more before I can guess at the many uses of Second Life. It appears that it would be a good online venue for promtping students to interact with set tasks and learning about information that lecturers want students to cover at the same time. It is probable that once the online reading task has been done in Second Life the lecturer could recieve verification that each student has completed the task whereas at the moment the lecturer can only hope that students have done the required reading of certain text. Learning could take a whole new format with second Life. I look forward to learning more.