A review and synthesis of recent research in Second Life

Fang Yu-shen
National Taiwan Normal University
Taipei, Taiwan

Lee Lung-sheng
National United University
Taipei, Taiwan

Online games are regarded as an important teaching mode in many countries. This paper reviews and synthesizes the educational research in this area in the period 2006 to 2008. To assist those who may wish to put online-games education into practice, it discusses educational activities in the virtual world created in online games in terms of the interactive platform and knowledge acquisition.