Immersive Virtual Worlds in Educational Practice: Introducing Educators to Second Life

New Search

Print Abstract

E-mail Abstract

Full Text

View Slides

Save to My Collections

Export Citation

Zijdemans Boudreau, A., Headley, S. & Ashford, R. (2009). Immersive Virtual Worlds in Educational Practice: Introducing Educators to Second Life. In T. Bastiaens et al. (Eds.), Proceedings of World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2009 (pp. 2076-2081). Chesapeake, VA: AACE.
Retrieved from http://www.editlib.org/p/32770.

• Share:
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

Conference Information

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education (ELEARN) 2009
Vancouver, Canada
October 26, 2009
ISBN 1-880094-76-2
  Theo Bastiaens, Jon Dron & Cindy Xin
AACE

More Information on ELEARN
Table of Contents

Authors

Anita Zijdemans Boudreau, Pacific University, College of Education, United States; Scot Headley, Robin Ashford, George Fox Univeristy, United States

Abstract

This paper reports outcomes of the second iteration of a longitudinal action research study on the affordances of Second Life for enriched online teaching and learning. 'Introduction to Second for Educators' was a professional development opportunity offered to graduate students, faculty, and administrators as a distance course in spring 2009. Participants’ wiki reflections and exit questionnaires were analyzed to determine the effectiveness of a constructivist instructional design using guided discovery within a supportive Community of Inquiry [CoI]. Results indicate that the constructivist design ensures a level of facilitation requisite to successfully scaffolding novices’ experiential learning inworld. The CoI model is well supported in the data, with some deficits in cognitive presence. Challenges persist in the areas of technology and time. Action items for the Fall 2009 iteration include increasing activities to maximize SL affordances for building, problem solving, and peer collaboration, and adjusting measurement tools for improved future data analysis.

Also Read

• Designing with and for Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge: The Evolution of GeoThentic
• Using e-Learning Technologies in Developing Remeditainment Products for the Treatment of Children with Central Auditory Processing Disorder (CAPD)
• Post degree online course in Haematopathology and e-Learning: description of an innovative curriculum in e-Learning
• Podcasts in Higher Education: What Students Want, What They Really Need, and How This Might be Supported
• Using RSS in Collaborative Course Development
• Teaching for Success: Technology and Learning Styles in Preservice Teacher Education
• Reducing E-Learning Development Costs Using a Streamlined XML-based Approach
• Using Authentic Situations and Avatars to Build Knowledge in an E-Learning Environment
• Inspiring Learning and Teaching: Using e-tools to Facilitate Change
• Scenario making support in PBL

Tags