Lim Lai Cheng loves traveling, reading, making new friends and exploring new worlds. She currently leads a dual life exploring the impact of virtual worlds and avatars on teaching and learning in the real world. In her past life, she has been teacher, administrator and principal in institutions as diverse as National Junior College, Deyi Secondary, Commonwealth Secondary and Temasek Junior College. She has also had the opportunity to shape, define, implement and explain policies in her nine years with the Ministry of Education in Curriculum Planning and Public Affairs.

She is pursuing a part-time Doctor in Education programme, attempting to design pedagogy and curriculum appropriate for inhabitants of the web 2.0 world. She has over 500 friends on Friendster, is just starting to build up her profile on Facebook and is a resident of Second Life. She was presented with the Leader Mentor Award in 2004 at the 2nd Global Leadership & Mentoring Congress organized by Research Communication International. She heads Raffles Institution from 15 Dec 2008.

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