The 2007 Virtual Worlds Conference was a must attend as is the 2009 Virtual World in Education Global Conference. The 2009 Virtual World in Education Best Practices Global Conference will be held in Second Life on March 27, 2009 through March 29, 2009. It is interesting that the Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education conference will be held in March just after the Virtual Educational Support Faire the 2009 Virtual Worlds: Libraries, Education, and Museums Conference held just after on April 24 & 25. 15 Highlights below:

The keynote presentation will be given on Friday, March 27, at 1pm PDT time by Pathfinder Linden. SLurl. The three day conference includes research and best practicies on virtual education. Desinging a virtual campus and 3d reality classroom at all ages of students and including math, science, and languages will be included.

15 Highlights of the 2009 Virtual Education Worlds Best Practices Conference

1. Virtual Learning: Practices and Possibilities

2. Educational Theory Foundations for Virtual World Learning Semrau & Boyer Educational Theory Foundations for Virtual World Learning

3. Evolving An Immersive Learning Simulation Paradigm to Standardize & Simplify Elearning Content Preparation in Virtual Worlds Allen Partridge

4. Mixed Reality New Media Art Exhibition: Creating and Critiquing Art in Second Life

5. Games-based Learning Theory: A synthesis of ideas to help plan, implement and assess serious games

6. Language Learning in 3D – stories from the beginning of the journey

7. PowerPoint Just Isn’t Enough

8. Putting the ‘Real’ in Virtual Reality for Educators and Students

9. Second Life as an Education Virtual Support

10. Using Second Life to Help Improve Students’ Understanding of Analytic Geometry and Linear Algebra Concepts

11. Creating 3D Virtual World Teaching/Learning Environments

12. Future of Virtual Education

13. What Teens Are Learning From Machinima: Production In Teen Second Life

14. Staffing and Running a Virtual University in Second Life

15. Building, Exploring, Playing with Concepts and Storytelling: The Innovative Use of Technology for Teaching and Learning

View full Conference Schedule. Official Conference Site.