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At the edge of the rift / edited by Sue Gregory, Paul Jerry and Nancy Tavares Jones.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Virtual reality.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford, England : Inter-Diciplinary Press, [2014]
- Summary:
- This volume was first published by Inter-Disciplinary Press in 2014. Times are changing. Virtual Worlds have enjoyed nearly a decade of use by educators who have developed many creative ways to provide immersive, experiential learning experiences for students of all ages. This volume represents the most up-to-date research and thinking on the use of virtual worlds in education from experts across the globe. Included are discussions of hardware advances, software advances and data analytics.
- Contents:
- Preliminary Material / Sue Gregory , Paul Jerry and Nancy Tavares-Jones
- Mobile Accessibility of Virtual Worlds: The Second Life Experience / Paul Jerry and Nancy Tavares-Jones
- Virtual Villages: Networking the Global Archipelago / Karen Le Rossignol
- Conversational Agents in Virtual Worlds: Immersion and the Conversational Record / Bob Heller and Mike Procter
- STEDUS, a New Educational Platform for Augmented Reality Applications / Héctor Martínez and Seppo Laukkanen
- Next-Generation Teaching and Learning Using the Virtual Theatre / Max Hoffmann , Katharina Schuster , Daniel Schilberg and Sabina Jeschke
- How to Explore the ‘Spatialities’ of Avatars in a Virtual World? Example of the Project Magic Ring in Second Life / Lucas Jean-François
- Student Perceptions of Learning from a Distance through a Virtual World / Sue Gregory
- The Virtual World Web®: An Extension and Compliment to Traditional Modes of Learning: Building an Integrated, Connected and Interactive Learning Community / Brian Shuster.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-84888-321-8
- OCLC:
- 1096223656
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9781848883215 DOI
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