iED held a half-day long event which was open to the public. There they detailed what the Immersive Education platform was all about. Basically, an interactive way for people to learn in a virtual world. Internet-based, or on a CD/DVD.
There were numerous other events held featuring iED. Many summits were held all over the world (in London, for instance).
The article explaining how iED is essentially a SAFE, closed environment that people of all ages can use. It explains how broad the audience is, with people in grade school all the way up to college using basically the same tools to explore and interact. There are, however, novice and full viewers of the modules so the amount of access and features are restricted for certain age groups.
The project is completely Open Source, and runs on Second Life. Essentially, you own everything you do so there's little worry that just because the service is discontinued or whatever, you still have access to everything you were running assuming you were in fact hosting everything yourself.
You can read more about the iED Iniative at the Education Grid site: http://theeducationgrid.org/About_The_Education_Grid.html
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