Switzerland, November 08 : IMI University Centre, announced the launch of the IMI virtual campus on Edunation Island on Second Life, a virtual three-dimensional world created by Linden Labs. IMI University Centre is the first online graduate school to establish a virtual island to promote hsopitality-, events- and tourism- management to over nine million cyber residents. SLURL

Lukas Ritzel (Web Strategist at IMI): "This is a significant milestone for IMI. We are very excited to create a new collaborative environment that would even more highlight our unique pedagogy of student centred and problem-based learning that helps increase our student's ability to solve real-world challenges in their professional and personal lives. We designed our camous not only as another e-way for our faculty, students and alumni to interact in real-time with each other but as a educational cyber institution to expand, spread and share their wealth of knowledge. Individuals who have already set up an account in Second Life and wish to tour the IMI campus, can type "IMI University Centre" in the map search feature and teleport or visit our SLURL page to get there. Moving forward, IMI plans to host webinars and online lectures. Additionally, the whole island Edunation can serve as a platform for cross-country events such as open houses, student and alumni chapter meetings and activities, graduation ceremonies, career fairs for students and even incorporated as part of a learning guideline for IMI's graduate programmes."