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Virtual Campus Orientation: Supporting Students’ Transition to Post-Secondary Before They Actually Arrive
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference(SITE)2013:1

Patricia Boechler, Eleni Stroulia, Erik deJong, Matthew Delaney, Mike Carbonaro, Corbett Artym, Wayne Thomas & Jeff Klassen, University of Alberta, Canada

Transitioning to postsecondary education from secondary school is an important and critical adjustment for young adults (Pascarella & Terenzini, 2005). Our research project is designed to leverage the use of virtual environments to support new...

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Managing virtual world sessions for health science interprofessional education
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education(ELEARN)2010:1

Patricia Boechler, Sharla King, Eleni Stroulia, Michael Carbonaro, Erik deJong, Ewa Wasniewski & David Chodos, University of Alberta, Canada

To address the need for interprofessional communications training for health science students, we developed and tested a virtual world (Second Life) for the delivery of a mock patient interview session. Health science students enrolled in an...

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Video Games for Teaching and Learning: Game-building as a Teaching Tool
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference(SITE)2011:1

Patricia Boechler, Michael Carbonaro, Erik deJong, Eleni Stroulia & Lucio Gutiérrez, University of Alberta, Canada

This presentation describes and showcases an undergraduate course that was designed to teach pre-service teachers to use game-building software in the classroom. The course advocates a constructionist approach to guide pre-service teachers in their...

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Incidental Learning and Salience in Virtual Worlds
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education(ELEARN)2012:1

Wayne Thomas, Patricia Boechler, Erik deJong, Eleni Stroulia & Matthew Delaney, University of Alberta, Canada

Abstract: The issue of how students learn in virtual worlds is one that needs to be explored. This study seeks to determine whether or not students can learn incidentally within virtual worlds and whether or not they are better at incidentally...

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