Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / Sue Gregory , Paul Jerry and Nancy Tavares-Jones -- Mobile Accessibility of Virtual Worlds: The Second Life Experience / Paul Jerry and Nancy Tavares-Jones -- Virtual Villages: Networking the Global Archipelago / Karen Le Rossignol -- Conversational Agents in Virtual Worlds: Immersion and the Conversational Record / Bob Heller and Mike Procter -- STEDUS, a New Educational Platform for Augmented Reality Applications / Héctor Martínez and Seppo Laukkanen -- Next-Generation Teaching and Learning Using the Virtual Theatre / Max Hoffmann , Katharina Schuster , Daniel Schilberg and Sabina Jeschke -- How to Explore the ‘Spatialities’ of Avatars in a Virtual World? Example of the Project Magic Ring in Second Life / Lucas Jean-François -- Student Perceptions of Learning from a Distance through a Virtual World / Sue Gregory -- The Virtual World Web®: An Extension and Compliment to Traditional Modes of Learning: Building an Integrated, Connected and Interactive Learning Community / Brian Shuster.