EDUCAUSE offers Virtual Worlds Constituent Group - Second Life membership growing fast

To quote their mission statement "EDUCAUSE is a nonprofit association whose mission is to advance higher education by promoting the intelligent use of information technology." As you might imagine with all the educational activity within Second Life, they are quite interested in Virtual Worlds for education too, and have a specific group for it.

I found out from Art Fossett about this (thanks Art) and he points out that you don't have to join EDUCAUSE to join their mailing lists and a complete list of their groups is available from here. There is also an EDUCAUSE group in Second Life which is free to join. If education in virtual worlds is your thing, joining at least one of these services seems like a likely step to me.