Virtual Team Role Playing: Development of a Learning Environment

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Author(s): Bjoern Jaeger (Molde University College, Norway & Curtin University, Australia)and Berit Helgheim (Molde University College, Norway)
Copyright: 2011
Pages: 17
Source title: Multi-User Virtual Environments for the Classroom: Practical Approaches to Teaching in Virtual Worlds
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Giovanni Vincenti (Towson University, USA)and James Braman (Towson University, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60960-545-2.ch020

Keywords: Education / Educational Technologies / Information Science Reference / Virtual Learning Environments

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Working in a virtual world creates new opportunities for both students and teachers. In particular, virtual team role play provides excellent support for collaborative learning approaches in a cost efficient manner. The purpose of this chapter is to describe experiences developing a virtual team role play learning environment in Second Life® over a period of three years. Theoretical justification for bringing role playing into a virtual world is provided. The chapter outlines the role play, its setup in both real and virtual world, and describes how it has evolved from a setup at one university, to a distributed case involving several locations. Experiences from role playing sessions are presented for each year.

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