Understanding Learning in Virtual Worlds

By Anna Peachey and Mark Childs

Book Overview

Editors' Introduction.- An Alternative (to) Reality.- Guidelines for Conducting Text Based Interviews in Virtual Worlds.- Designing for Hybrid Learning Environments in a Science Museum: Inter-professional Conceptualisations of Space.- An Examination of Student Engagement, Knowledge Creation and Expansive Learning in a Virtual World.- The Strength of Cohesive Ties: Discursive Construction of an Online Learning Community.- +SPACES: Serious Games for Role-Playing Government Policies.- Avatars, Art and Aspirations: The Creative Potential for Learning in the Virtual World.- Second Language Acquisition by Immersive and Collaborative Task-based Learning in a Virtual World.- Do Virtual Worlds Support Engaging Social Conferencing?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1447162056
• ISBN13: 9781447162056
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 179 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"