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Practice What You Preach: Experiences with Teaching Virtual World Concepts in a Virtual World

Practice What You Preach: Experiences with Teaching Virtual World Concepts in a Virtual World
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Author(s): Laura Benvenuti (Dutch Open University, The Netherlands)and Gerrit C. van der Veer (Dutch Open University, The Netherlands)
Copyright: 2011
Pages: 9
Source title: Virtual Immersive and 3D Learning Spaces: Emerging Technologies and Trends
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Shalin Hai-Jew (Hutchinson Community College, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61692-825-4.ch003

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Abstract

This chapter is not on the technology of Virtual Worlds. The authors discuss the application of a Virtual World as a teaching and learning environment for a course on Virtual Worlds. In their view, innovation and education should go hand in hand. Too often, new technologies are discussed without being applied. The authors argue that innovative technologies do belong in those classroom where their application is relevant to the topic. In thischapter, the authors discuss an example of how this issue can be tackled. They show that application of innovative tools is useful to all parties: students, lecturers and researchers, even if it raises new problems from which we all can learn.

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