Learning in Virtual Worlds: Research and Applications

• Autor principal: Edited by Sue Gregory, Mark J.W. Lee, Barney Dalgarno, and Belinda Tynan (auth)
• Formato: Recurso Electrónico Capítulo de Livro
• Idioma: inglês
• Publicado em: Athabasca University Press 2016
• Colecção: Issues in Distance Education
• Assuntos: SecondLife; 3D; OpenSimulation; Open Wonderland; simulated learning; online learning
• Acesso em linha: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Three-dimensional (3D) immersive virtual worlds have been touted as being capable of facilitating highly interactive, engaging, multimodal learning experiences. Much of the evidence gathered to support these claims has been anecdotal but the potential that these environments hold to solve traditiona...