Here we will explore delivering training and learning in electronic formats in Australia, and the broader field of elearning across the business world and blogosphere.

This is the company website of AEmeritus in Australia.

A blog format was chosen to allow a conversation, hopefully lively and controversial, about the issues, emerging principles, and perspectives on eLearning and online training because the field is still growing and finding its voice, especially in Australia.

In time, I expect eLearning to be an important element in any business and a force for change throughout the world.

November 11, 2005

A lighter look at ROI

Virtual Island, Sound Investment?

(from business2blogs) The online videogame player who bought a virtual island a year ago for $26,500 has reportedly recouped his investment. From BBC News:

The 23-year-old gamer known as Deathifier made the money back in under a year. The virtual Treasure Island he bought existed within the online role-playing game Project Entropia. He made money by selling land to build virtual homes as well as taxing other gamers to hunt or mine on the island.

Now that guy who bought the $100,000 space station on Project Entropia doesn't look so crazy after all.

Posted on November 11, 2005 at 11:55 PM in AEmeritus, eLearning as Design, Games, ROI | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)