As Elisa clearly states and reports:

I also tried to experiment Second Life (defined in report of week 4 as another “thread of activity that will empower the OPLI initiative”) with the idea of using it in my teaching practice. I have to say that, as far as my limited personal experience is concerned, I did not find any experiential learning environments, but just the repetition of the traditional teacher-centred lesson where the teacher explains and the students listen and try to learn… The virtual class was an exact copy of a traditional frontal lesson, with the difference that we hided behind the masks of avatars.

the risk of just repeating in a virtual learning environment the patterns of the teacher-centered teaching model is far too great. This is another aspect I saw clearly once more, while I was reading the papers and tried to visit some sites quoted in them, I found nothing more than a carbon-copy of traditional, f2f courses held in a classroom, and this not taking in consideration the mess og courses or “open” courses where the course itself is only made of a list of pdf files to download and read.