Inter/Connexions

Teaching and Learning in Virtual Worlds

£14.95

Christina DeCoursey and Shana Garrett

Format: Paperback

Format: Paperback | 238 pages
Dimensions: 150 x 210 x 17mm | 320g
Publication date: 19 Feb 2014
Publisher: Inter/Connexions
Imprint: Inter-Disciplinary Press

 

 
Virtual worlds are now everyday affairs, in the workplace, education and entertainment. For educators, virtual worlds offer motivating topography and global synchronicity. In-world, learners can assemble, discuss and disseminate content. They gain hands-on experience in simulations of expensive facilities, equipment, situations and processes that traditional print materials and cash-strapped institutions cannot provide. Learners can have a wide range of experiences, integrating their conceptual understanding with the practitioner’s realistic grasp of a field.

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Description of the book

Virtual worlds are now everyday affairs, in the workplace, education and entertainment. For educators, virtual worlds offer motivating topography and global synchronicity. In-world, learners can assemble, discuss and disseminate content. They gain hands-on experience in simulations of expensive facilities, equipment, situations and processes that traditional print materials and cash-strapped institutions cannot provide. Learners can have a wide range of experiences, integrating their conceptual understanding with the practitioner’s realistic grasp of a field. Socially, virtual worlds level differences between people. Philosophically, virtual subjectivity has been an area of sustained academic interest, raising questions about identity, social presence and immersion. This volume explores these and other questions across a range of teaching and learning issues including ethics in counselling and therapeutic interventions, bot-scripted archaeology and language acquisition, virtual coral reefs and champagne poster sessions, physics and virtual sex.
Introduction
Part 1: Virtual Subjectivity
Part 2: Experiential and Distributed Learning
Part 3: Managing Experiential Learning
Index
Christina DeCoursey is Programme Leader for MA at the Hong Kong University. Her research interests include virtual worlds and multimodality in teaching, animation, appraisal analysis and Confucian learning styles.

Shana Garrett has contributed to the education field with over fifteen years of progressive administrator experience in both the online and ground platforms. Her research interests include academic readiness, faculty engagement, as well as student retention within the distance education environment.