At a recent HeLF (Heads of e-Learning) meeting at the University of Wolverhampton, there were presentations and discussions on Virtual Worlds and Second Life (SL) in particular.
Here's a link to the site where you can see the programme and download the slides:
http://asp.wlv.ac.uk/Level5.asp?UserType=11&Level5=5781#12 [1]
You may also want to look at some of the work at Edinburgh University. The link includes many disciplines: http://vue.ed.ac.uk/ [2]
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PASCAL Observatory