How are Australian higher education institutions contributing to change through innovative teaching and learning in virtual worlds?
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Paper/Presentation Title | How are Australian higher education institutions contributing to change through innovative teaching and learning in virtual worlds? |
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Presentation Type | Paper |
Authors | Gregory, Brent (Author), Gregory, Sue (Author), Wood, Denise (Author), Masters, Yvonne (Author), Hillier, Mathew (Author), Stokes-Thompson, Frederick (Author), Bogdanovych, Anton (Author), Butler, Des (Author), Hay, Lyn (Author), Jegathesan, Jay Jay (Author), Flintoff, Kim (Author), Schutt, Stefan (Author), Linegar, Dale (Author), Alderton, Robyn (Author), Cram, Andrew (Author), Stupans, Ieva (Author), McKeown Orwin, Lindy (Author), Meredith, Grant (Author), McCormick, Debbie (Author), Collins, Francesca (Author), Grenfell, Jenny (Author), Zagami, Jason (Author), Ellis, Allan (Author), Jacka, Lisa (Author), Campbell, John (Author), Larson, Ian (Author), Fluck, Andrew (Author), Thomas, Angela (Author), Farley, Helen (Author), Muldoon, Nona (Author), Abbas, Ali (Author), Sinnappan, Suku (Author), Neville, Katrina (Author), Burnett, Ian (Author), Aitken, Ashley (Author), Simoff, Simeon (Author), Scutter, Sheila (Author), Wang, Xiangyu (Author), Souter, Kay (Author), Ellis, David (Author), Salomon, Mandy (Author), Wadley, Greg (Author), Jacobson, Michael (Author), Newstead, Anne (Author), Hayes, Gary (Author), Grant, Scott (Author) and Yusupova, Alyona (Author) |
Editors | Williams, G., Statham, P., Brown, N. and Cleland, B. |
Journal or Proceedings Title | Proceedings of the 28th Annual Conference of the Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education (ASCILITE 2011) |
Journal Citation | 3, pp. 475-490 |
Number of Pages | 16 |
Year | 2011 |
Place of Publication | Australia |
ISBN | 9781862956445 |
Web Address (URL) of Paper | https://www.ascilite.org/conferences/hobart11/downloads/papers/Gregory-full.pdf |
Web Address (URL) of Conference Proceedings | https://www.ascilite.org/conferences/hobart11/proceedings.html |
Conference/Event | 28th Annual Conference of the Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education (ASCILITE 2011) |
Event Details | Rank C C C C C C C C C C C C C C |
Event Details | 28th Annual Conference of the Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education (ASCILITE 2011) Parent Annual Conference of the Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education (ASCILITE) Delivery In person Event Date 04 to end of 07 Dec 2011 Event Location Hobart, Australia Event Web Address (URL) |
Abstract | Over the past decade, teaching and learning in virtual worlds has been at the forefront of many higher education institutions around the world. The DEHub Virtual Worlds Working Group (VWWG) consisting of Australian and New Zealand higher education academics was formed in 2009. These educators are investigating the role that virtual worlds play in the future of education and actively changing the direction of their own teaching practice and curricula. 47 academics reporting on 28 Australian higher education institutions present an overview of how they have changed directions through the effective use of virtual worlds for diverse teaching and learning activities such as business scenarios and virtual excursions, role-play simulations, experimentation and language development. The case studies offer insights into the ways in which institutions are continuing to change directions in their teaching to meet changing demands for innovative teaching, learning and research in virtual worlds. This paper highlights the ways in which the authors are using virtual worlds to create opportunities for rich, immersive and authentic activities that would be difficult or not possible to achieve through more traditional approaches. |
Keywords | virtual worlds; VWs; Second Life; OpenSim; engagement; VWWG |
Contains Sensitive Content | Does not contain sensitive content |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 390405. Educational technology and computing |
390303. Higher education | |
460799. Graphics, augmented reality and games not elsewhere classified | |
Public Notes | © 2011 Brent Gregory et al. The author(s) assign to ascilite and educational non-profit institutions, a non-exclusive licence to use this document for personal use and in courses of instruction, provided that the article is used in full and this copyright statement is reproduced. The author(s) also grant a non-exclusive licence to ascilite to publish this document on the ascilite web site and in other formats for the Proceedings ascilite Hobart 2011. Any other use is prohibited without the express permission of the author(s). |
Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
Byline Affiliations | University of New England |
University of South Australia | |
University of Queensland | |
University of Western Sydney | |
Queensland University of Technology | |
Charles Sturt University | |
University of Western Australia | |
Curtin University of Technology | |
Victoria University | |
TAFE New South Wales | |
Macquarie University | |
University of Ballarat | |
Monash University | |
Deakin University | |
Griffith University | |
Southern Cross University | |
University of Canberra | |
University of Tasmania | |
Australian Digital Futures Institute | |
Central Queensland University | |
University of Sydney | |
Swinburne University of Technology | |
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) | |
James Cook University | |
University of New South Wales | |
La Trobe University | |
University of Melbourne | |
MUVE Design, Australia |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/q257z/how-are-australian-higher-education-institutions-contributing-to-change-through-innovative-teaching-and-learning-in-virtual-worlds
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