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Learn in Your Avatar: A Teacher’s Story on Integrating Virtual Worlds in Teaching and Learning

Learn in Your Avatar: A Teacher’s Story on Integrating Virtual Worlds in Teaching and Learning
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Author(s): Mimma Sayuti Mat Khalid (University of Malaya, Malaysia)and Raja Maznah Raja Hussain (University of Malaya, Malaysia)
Copyright: 2013
Pages: 11
Source title: Immersive Environments, Augmented Realities, and Virtual Worlds: Assessing Future Trends in Education
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Steven D’Agustino (Fordham University, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-2670-6.ch005

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Abstract

A Malaysian Smart School document has vividly described components that will make up future classrooms in 2020. Nonetheless, such components can currently be implemented using Virtual Worlds (VW), specifically Multi-User Virtual Environment (MUVE). Integrating virtual worlds effectively in teaching and learning can be very daunting, especially when the tool requires a steep learning curve on the part of the teacher. This chapter aims to describe a teacher’s journey of integrating Virtual Worlds or MUVEs in her teaching and learning, both for adult learners and Malaysian secondary school. The technology integration is based on continuous self-reflection of TPACK (Technological, Pedagogical and Content Knowledge) framework. The description will include the strategies used in learning to learn; learning to teach in virtual worlds; and also lessons learned during the learning process of using the technology.

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