Virtual reality and education: overview across different disciplines / Nicoletta Melida Sala -- Applied areas of three dimensional virtual worlds in learning and teaching: a review of higher education / Reza Ghanbarzadeh, Amir Hossein Ghapanchi -- Faculty perception of virtual 3-D learning environment to assess student learning / Anita Cassard, Brian W. Sloboda -- Increasing student engagement through virtual worlds: a community college approach in a diversity course / Yvonne Pigatt, James Braman -- Using Second Life for situated and active learning in teacher education / Barbara L. Ludlow, Melissa D. Hartley -- Teaching economics in World of Warcraft / András Margitay-Becht -- The use of virtual worlds in foreign language teaching and learning / Ellen Yeh, Guofang Wan -- Augmented reality as an emerging application in tourism marketing education / Azizul Hassan, Timothy Jung -- Seeing numbers differently: mathematics in the virtual world / Rebecca Lynne Patterson, D. Cooper Patterson, Anna-Marie Robertson -- Pedagogical agents for learning / Noah L. Schroeder -- Augmented reality: a new direction in education / Çelebi Uluyol, Sami Sahin -- Ethics in virtual world environments research / Amit Goel [and 5 others] -- Integrating technological innovations to enhance the teaching-learning process / Judi Simmons Estes, Amber Dailey-Hebert, Dong Hwa Choi.