- Title
- Conclusion : Learning in virtual worlds : research and applications
- Creator
- Lee, Mark; Gregory, Sue; Tynan, Belinda; Dalgarno, Barney
- Date
- 2016
- Type
- Text; Book chapter
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/101141
- Identifier
- vital:10654
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781771991346 (PDF); 9781771991353 (ebk); 1919-4382 (ISSN)
- Abstract
- Although virtual worlds, and 3D virtual environments more broadly, have been used in educational contexts for more than 20 years, there remains a great deal that we still do not know about how best to design and use them to maximize learning effectiveness and outcomes. The contributors to this volume have explored a range of research topics related to the use of virtual worlds in education. Topics spanned human–computer interaction issues related to navigation, communication, identity formation, and authentic learning; leading-edge technologies that have the potential to take learning in virtual worlds forward in new directions, with a specific focus on conversational agents and computer-controlled avatars; and considerations and frameworks for designing and implementing learning in virtual worlds. The contributions made by these chapters within the broad areas of human–computer interaction, advanced technologies, and learning design and implementation are discussed in turn in the following parts before concluding with a summary of the main contributions of the book as a whole and the opportunities that exist for future research.
- Publisher
- AU Press, Athabasca University
- Relation
- Learning in virtual worlds : research and applications (Issues in distance education series) p. 295-306
- Rights
- Copyright © 2016 Sue Gregory, Mark J. W. Lee, Barney Dalgarno, and Belinda Tynan
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- Virtual worlds; Online learning; Tertiary education sector
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