Gregory Sue - Learning in virtual worlds : research and applications

LEARNING IN VIRTUAL WORLDS

Issues in Distance Education

Series editor: Terry Anderson

Distance education is the fastest-growing mode of both formal and informal teaching, training, and learning. It is multi-faceted in nature, encompassing e-learning and mobile learning, as well as immersive learning environments. Issues in Distance Education presents recent research results and offers informative and accessible overviews, analyses, and explorations of current topics and concerns and the technologies employed in distance education. Each volume focuses on critical questions and emerging trends, while also situating these developments within the historical evolution of distance education as a specialized mode of instruction. The series is aimed at a wide group of readers, including teachers, trainers, administrators, researchers, and students.

Series Titles

The Theory and Practice of Online Learning, Second Edition
Edited by Terry Anderson

Mobile Learning: Transforming the Delivery of Education and Training
Edited by Mohamed Ally

A Designers Log: Case Studies in Instructional Design
Michael Power

Accessible Elements: Teaching Science Online and at a Distance
Edited by Dietmar Kennepohl and Lawton Shaw

Emerging Technologies in Distance Education
Edited by George Veletsianos

Flexible Pedagogy, Flexible Practice: Notes from the Trenches of Distance Education
Edited by Elizabeth Burge, Chre Campbell Gibson, and Terry Gibson

Online Distance Education: Towards a Research Agenda
Edited by Olaf Zawacki-Richter and Terry Anderson

Learning in Virtual Worlds: Research and Applications
Edited by Sue Gregory, Mark J. W. Lee, Barney Dalgarno, and Belinda Tynan

RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS

Edited by
Sue Gregory, Mark J. W. Lee, Barney Dalgarno, and Belinda Tynan

Copyright 2016 Sue Gregory, Mark J. W. Lee, Barney Dalgarno, and Belinda Tynan

Published by AU Press, Athabasca University
1200, 10011 109 Street, Edmonton, AB T5J 3S8

ISBN 978-1-77199-133-9 (print) 978-1-77199-134-6 (PDF) 978-1-77199-135-3 (epub)
doi: 10.15215/aupress/9781771991339.01

Cover and interior design by Sergiy Kozakov
Printed and bound in Canada by Friesens

Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

Learning in virtual worlds : research and applications / edited by Sue Gregory, Mark

J. W. Lee, Barney Dalgarno, and Belinda Tynan.

(Issues in distance education, 1919-4382)

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in print and electronic formats.

1. Virtual reality in education. 2. Shared virtual environments. 3. Three-dimensional imaging. I. Gregory, Sue, editor II. Lee, Mark J. W., editor III. Dalgarno, Barney, editor IV. Tynan, Belinda, editor V. Series: Issues in distance education series

We acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund (CBF) for our publishing activities.

Assistance provided by the Government of Alberta, Alberta Media Fund.

Please contact AU Press, Athabasca University at for permissions and copyright information.

Shailey Minocha and Christopher Hardy

Stephany F. Wilkes

Laura Fedeli

Robert L. Todd, Jessica Pater, and Paul M. A. Baker

Ann Smith

Helen S. Farley

Bob Heller, Mike Procter, and Corbin Rose

Torsten Reiners, Sue Gregory, and Vicki Knox

Steven Warburton and Margarita Prez Garca

Francesca Bertacchini and Assunta Tavernise

Chris Campbell and Leanne Cameron

Paul Resta and Miri Shonfeld

Layla F. Tabatabaie