VirtualPREX: Providing Virtual Professional Experience for Pre-Service Teachers

Title
VirtualPREX: Providing Virtual Professional Experience for Pre-Service Teachers
Publication Date
2015
Author(s)
Masters, Yvonne
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1120-7950
Email: ymasters@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:ymasters
Gregory, Sue
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0417-8266
Email: sgregor4@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:sgregor4
Dalgarno, Barney
Reiners, Torsten
Knox, Vicki
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:18067
Abstract
Professional experience (or practicum) is problematic within teacher education courses because preparation for, and the quality of, placements can be inconsistent. Preservice teachers can commence their first placement without some of the requisite skills and off-campus pre-service teachers do not always have opportunities to practise any ski lls at all pre-placement. VirtualPREX is an innovative approach to professional experience preparation, providing opportunities for practice in a virtual world such as Second Life . In this chapter the authors outline the rationale for this innovation and then report on the data from the pilot trials of the VirtualPREX role plays where pre-service teachers role-played the teacher and students in a Second Life virtual classroom. The chapter concludes with a discussion of the next steps in the project.
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Citation
Virtual Worlds for Online Learning: Cases and Applications, p. 3-24
ISBN
9781634821490
9781634821940
Start page
3
End page
24

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