Me, us and it: insiders views of the complex technical, organisational and personal elements in using virtual worlds in education
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Paper/Presentation Title | Me, us and it: insiders views of the complex technical, organisational and personal elements in using virtual worlds in education |
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Presentation Type | Paper |
Authors | Gregory, Sue (Author), Gregory, Brent (Author), Wood, Denise (Author), Grant, Scott (Author), Nikolic, Sasha (Author), Hillier, Mathew (Author), Hearns, Merle (Author), Jacka, Lisa (Author), McDonald, Marcus (Author), Reiners, Torsten (Author), Lierse, Sharon (Author), John, Blooma (Author), Sukunesan, Suku (Author), Rutherford, Emily (Author), Jegathesan, Jay Jay (Author), Butler, Des (Author), Farley, Helen (Author) and Irwin, Pauletta (Author) |
Editors | Partridge, H., Davis, K. and Thomas, J. |
Journal or Proceedings Title | Proceedings of the 34th International Conference on Innovation, Practice and Research in the Use of Educational Technologies in Tertiary Education (ASCILITE 2017) |
ERA Conference ID | 42391 |
Number of Pages | 8 |
Year | 2017 |
Place of Publication | Toowoomba, Australia |
Web Address (URL) of Paper | http://2017conference.ascilite.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/ASCILITE-2017-Proceeding.pdf |
Conference/Event | 34th International Conference on Innovation, Practice and Research in the Use of Educational Technologies in Tertiary Education: Me, Us, IT! (ASCILITE 2017) |
Annual Conference of the Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education | |
Event Details | Annual Conference of the Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education ASCILITE Rank C C C C C C C C C C C C |
Event Details | 34th International Conference on Innovation, Practice and Research in the Use of Educational Technologies in Tertiary Education: Me, Us, IT! (ASCILITE 2017) Event Date 04 to end of 06 Dec 2017 Event Location Toowoomba, Australia |
Abstract | The adoption and pedagogical use of technologies such as virtual worlds to support teaching and learning, and research in higher education involves a complex interplay of technical, organisational and personal factors. In this paper, eighteen educators and researchers provide an overview of how they perceive a virtual world can be used in education from the perspective of themselves as individuals ‘me’, their educational organisations and as members of the Australian and New Zealand Virtual Worlds Working Group (VWWG) community of practice ‘us’, as well as the complex technology that underpins this learning environment ‘IT’. Drawing on Linstone’s (1981, 1984) Technical, Organisational and Personal (TOP) multiple perspective concept as the framework for analysis, the authors discuss their perspectives of how the personal, organisational and technical aspects of teaching through the use of virtual worlds have impacted on their teaching and research in higher education. The potential of employing the TOP framework to inform future research into the use of technologies such as virtual worlds in teaching and learning is explored. |
Keywords | virtual worlds; education; technology; teaching and learning |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 390405. Educational technology and computing |
390303. Higher education | |
Byline Affiliations | University of New England |
Central Queensland University | |
Monash University | |
University of Wollongong | |
Manukau Institute of Technology, New Zealand | |
Southern Cross University | |
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) | |
Curtin University of Technology | |
Charles Darwin University | |
University of Canberra | |
Swinburne University of Technology | |
University of Western Australia | |
Queensland University of Technology | |
University of Southern Queensland | |
University of Newcastle | |
Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
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