 Case Western Reserve Univeristy in Second Life
In March 2007, a collaborative of Greater Cleveland-based institutions, individuals, and organizations launched one of the first "cities" in SecondLife modeled after a physical city in the early 21st century. Our collaboration, known as ClevelandPlus (formerly known as OneCleveland) seeks to develop a platform for exploration of education, public service, and netizenship, to become a virtual city designed to support exploration of historical Cleveland as well as a community involvement in imagining and building a never-before-seen Greater Cleveland of the future.Located in the virtual world of Second Life, ClevelandPlus has been carefully constructed as a virtual collaboratory designed to provide teachers, students, researchers, health providers, patrons, and visitors with dozens of prebuilt settings for experiments in social interaction in 3-D space. An environment designed for formal and informal, traditional and nontraditional, real and surreal, serious and playful exploration and learning.
What distinguishes ClevelandPlus from other Second Life environments is potential for community partnership, connected to all of our community assets. Cleveland has a unique portfolio of institutional players – not only schools but museums, the library system, digital asset organizations and our healthcare systems.
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