Multi-user virtual environments for the classroom practical approaches to teaching in virtual worlds
Title:
Multi-user virtual environments for the classroom practical approaches to teaching in virtual worlds
ISBN:
9781609605469
Publication Information New:
Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), c2011.
Physical Description:
electronic texts (453 p.) : ill., digital files.
Contents:
1. Linking MUVE education and best educational practices / Michael N. DeMers -- 2. Mapping current teaching and learning practices to multi-user virtual environments / Niccolo Capanni and Daniel C. Doolan -- 3. Learning places: a case study of collaborative pedagogy using online virtual worlds / James Barrett and Stefan Gelfgren -- 4. Using the interaction-combinations integration model to explore real-life learning in user-created virtual worlds / David M. Antonacci, Nellie Modaress, Edward Lee Lamoureux, David Thomas and Timothy Allen -- 5. Virtual learning environments: Second Life MUVEs to leverage student ownership / Mitzi P. Trahan, Nan B. Adams and Susan Dupre -- 6. Exploring the correlation between online teacher dispositions and practices in virtual classrooms and student participation and satisfaction / Carol M. Shepherd and Madelon Alpert -- 7. Signs and guideposts: expanding the course paradigm with virtual worlds / Keysha I. Gamor -- 8. Collaborative E-learning techniques: learning management systems vs. multi-user virtual environments / Andreas Konstantinidis, Thrasyvoulos Tsiatsos, Stavros Demetriadis and Andreas S. Pomportsis -- 9. How to build effective "edutainment" experiences in MUVEs / Alberto Bucciero, Nicoletta Di Blas, Luca Mainetti, Paolo Paolini and Caterina Poggi -- 10. Learning by building in SL: a reflection on an interdisciplinary and international experience / Hugh Denard, Enrica Salvatori and Maria Simi --
11. Trip to the virtual career world / Tom Wunderlich, Beverly Forbes and Erin Mills -- 12. Web based authoring for virtual worlds using PIVOTE / David Burden and Andrew Jinman -- 13. Immersive education spaces using Open Wonderland from pedagogy through to practice / Michael Gardner, Adela Gánem-Gutiérrez, John Scott, Bernard Horan and Vic Callaghan -- 14. Teaching and learning in Second Life: a case study / Jiuguang Feng and Liyan Song -- 15. Science through Second Life: a case study of MUVE's in an urban 9th grade classroom / Elizabeth Wellman and Cathy Arreguin -- 16. Virtual worlds - enjoyment, motivation and anonymity: environments to reengage disaffected learners with education / Marc Thompson -- 17. Why videogames are not teacher-proof: the central role of the teacher when using new technologies in the classroom / Melissa Gresalfi, Jacqueline Barnes and Patrick Pettyjohn -- 18. Constructing an experience in a virtual green home / Mary Ann Mengel -- 19. Teaching project management with Second Life / Marc Conrad -- 20. Virtual team role playing: development of a learning environment / Bjoern Jaeger and Berit Helgheim -- 21. Cross-university collaborative learning: extending the classroom via virtual worlds / Anne P. Massey, Mitzi M. Montoya and Valerie Bartelt -- 22. Object design in virtual immersive environments / Jan Baum --
23. Instructional design of an advanced interactive discovery environment: exploring team communication and technology use in virtual collaborative engineering problem solving / YiYan Wu and Tiffany A. Koszalka -- 24. Towards usable collaborative virtual reality environments for promoting listening comprehension / Miguel A. Garcia-Ruiz, Arthur Edwards, Raul Aquino-Santos, Jay Shiro Tashiro and Bill Kapralos -- 25. Second language teaching in virtual worlds: the case of european college students under the ERASMUS Program / Paulo Frias, Ricardo N. Fernandes and Ricardo Cruz -- 26. Teaching foreign languages in a virtual world: lesson plans / Regina Kaplan-Rakowski.
Abstract:
"This book highlights cutting-edge teaching ideas using theoretical discussions, case studies, and experiments pertaining to virtual environments, including learning foreign languages in virtual environments and examples that encourage educators to design and develop new worlds of learning inside and outside the university"--Provided by publisher.
Electronic Access:
Full Text Available From IGI Global 2011 Packages
Language:
English