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Authentic Virtual World Education: Facilitating Cultural Engagement and

Description: The book presents the possibilities and realities of virtual worlds in education through the application of 3D virtual worlds to support authentic learning, creativity, learner engagement and cultural diversity in higher education. It includes a unique variety of cross disciplinary approaches to research, teaching and learning in a virtual world, including analysis of data from the experiences of students in education, law, Chinese language, sustainability, computer architecture, business, health and the Arts. The book provides unique learning experiences that have celebrated the rich media of virtual world environments through the utilisation of affordances such as simulation, bots, synchronous interaction, machinima and games. The perspectives come from Australia and New Zealand higher education academics but transferable to any higher educational institution in the sector, worldwide, and is significant to various disciplines in the higher education field. Sue Gregory is an Associate Professor, Chair of Research and a member of the ICT education team in the School of Education at the University of New England, Australia, where she is responsible for leading and driving research within the school and training pre-service and postgraduate education students on how to incorporate technology into their teaching. She is a long-term adult educator and, since 2008, has been teaching in Second Life, in which she has created and manages several inworld spaces including classrooms and a playground for students. Sue's research focus is on adult learning, authenticity, engagement, immersion, impact, and the efficacy of virtual worlds for education; in particular, she has been examining student perceptions of their learning in a virtual world. Sue is chair of the Australian and New Zealand Virtual Worlds Working Group (VWWG) and recently led an Australian Government Office of Learning and Teaching (OLT)-funded project entitled "VirtualPREX: Innovative Assessment using a 3D Virtual World with Pre-Service Teachers". Denise Wood is a Professor, Engaged Research Chair and Director of the Centre for Regional Advancement of Learning, Equity, and Participation (LEAP) at Central Queensland University, Australia. She had led over AU$6 million in national funded research projects focusing on learning and teaching, and the innovative use of information and communication technologies, including virtual worlds, to enhance learning outcomes and the social and educational participation of people from underrepresented groups in Australia and South Africa. One of these projects, which is of particular interest to this publication, was an Australian Leaning and Teaching funded national project, "Facilitating flexible, enquiry-based experiential learning through an accessible, three-dimensional virtual learning environment (3DVLE)", the outputs of which included guidelines for academics teaching in virtual worlds about the affordances and features virtual worlds for learning and teaching in higher education, case studies across a range of disciplinary fields and the development of an accessible virtual world viewer. Chapter 1 Pedagogy and Learning for Sustainability in a Virtual World Scaffold.- Chapter 2 Intercultural Competence and Virtual Words.- Chapter 3 Virtual Worlds as Restorative Environments.- Chapter 4 Self-guided Exploration of Virtual Learning Spaces.- Chapter 5 Action-based Learning Assessment in Virtual Training Environments.- Chapter 6 Engagement in Second Life: Language Anxiety and Motivation.- Chapter 7 Cognitive Engagement in Virtual Worlds Language Learning.- Chapter 8 Anticipating Engagement: Pre-Service Teachers' Perceptions of Virtual Worlds.- Chapter 9 Utilising Second Life Machinima-Faciliated Narratives to Support Cognitive and Imaginative Engagement across an Undergraduate Curriculum.- Chapter 10 Decision Making supported by Virtual World Systems vis-à-vis Enterprise Systems' Uncertainty and Equivocality.

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EAN: 9789811063817

UPC: 9789811063817

ISBN: 9789811063817

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Book Title: Authentic Virtual World Education: Facilitating Cu

Item Length: 23.4 cm

Number of Pages: 206 Pages

Language: English

Publication Name: Authentic Virtual World Education: Facilitating Cultural Engagement and Creativity

Publisher: Springer Verlag, Singapore

Publication Year: 2017

Subject: Coaching & Career Guidance, Sociology, Education, Teaching

Item Height: 235 mm

Item Weight: 4557 g

Type: Textbook

Author: Sue Gregory, Denise Wood

Subject Area: Educational Technology, Developmental Psychology

Item Width: 155 mm

Format: Hardcover

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