Epilogue

Title
Epilogue
Publication Date
2015
Author(s)
Tynan, Belinda
Gregory, Sue
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0417-8266
Email: sgregor4@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:sgregor4
Dalgarno, Barney
Lee, Mark J W
Editor
Editor(s): Sue Gregory, Mark J W Lee, Barney Dalgarno, Belinda Tynan
Type of document
Book Chapter
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Nova Science Publishers, Inc
Place of publication
New York, United States of America
Edition
1
Series
Education in a Competitive and Globalizing World
UNE publication id
une:18066
Abstract
This book has focused on discipline-based uses of virtual worlds to enhance the learner experience in online education, including both fully online and hybrid or blended learning settings. The cases reported yield insight into how practitioner-scholars from across the globe have addressed key needs, problems, and issues that have lent themselves to the use of a virtual world. In particular, authentic learning opportunities that can prepare learners for the workplace feature heavily, as do the notion of "practice" and the engagement of students in reflective and meta-cognitive processes. The chapters are rich with examples of how the distinguishing features and characteristics of virtual worlds identified by Dalgamo and Lee (2010), along with the resulting affordances for spatial, contextual, experiential, and collaborative learning and for fostering motivation and engagement they describe, can be exploited to design effective learning tasks and environments. According to Dalgarno and Lee, 3D virtual environments are unique because of their representational fidelity and the types of user interactivity they support, from which arise the properties of identity construction, sense of presence, and co-presence . Issues and considerations as well as learning benefits associated with these features and properties are seen borne out repeatedly across all of the cases throughout the book.
Link
Citation
Virtual Worlds for Online Learning: Cases and Applications, p. 179-185
ISBN
9781634821940
9781634821490
Start page
179
End page
185

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