The JVWR, Volume 2, No. 1
Published: April 7, 2009
The editorial team for this issue includes:
Leslie Jarmon,
Kenneth Y. T. Lim, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
B. Stephen Carpenter, II, Texas A&M University, USA
This issue of the Journal of Virtual Worlds Research is dedicated to exploring the breadth of designs, pedagogies and curricular innovations that are actually already being applied to teaching and learning in virtual worlds. We encourage participation from a broad range of academics, researchers, educators, and educational practitioners from across the disciplinary spectrum – including, but not limited to: curriculum development, educational administration, distance education, information and knowledge management, instructional technology, e-learning, communication and education, sociology, art education, and visual culture. We strongly encourage submissions that illustrate key findings with examples and case studies; experimental research; pedagogical innovations; and best practices for the integration of virtual worlds technologies into the learning experience.
Issue Editors’ Corner
Introduction: Pedagogy, Education and Innovation in Virtual Worlds
Leslie Jarmon, Kenneth Y. T. Lim, B. Stephen Carpenter, II
An Ecology of Embodied Interaction: Pedagogy and homo
Leslie Jarmon
Virtual Worlds as Educational Experience: Living and Learning in Interesting Times
B. Stephen Carpenter, II
The Six Learnings of Second Life: a Framework for Designing Curricular Interventions In-world
Kenneth Lim
Peer Reviewed Research Papers
Learning in a different life: Pre-service education students using an online virtual world
Chris Campbell
An integrated framework for simulation-based training on video and in a virtual world
David Chodos, Eleni Stroulia, Parisa Naeimi
Using Second Life for Problem Based Learning in computer science programming
Micaela Esteves, Benjamim Fonseca, Leonel Morgado, Paulo Martins
Beyond the Game: Quest Atlantis as an Online Learning Experience for Gifted Elementary Students
Jackie Gerstein
Virtual Education: Teaching Media Studies in Second Life
David Kurt Herold
Canadian Border Simulation at Loyalist College
Ken Hudson, Kathryn deGast-Kennedy
Using Second Life to Teach Operations Management
Peggy Daniels Lee
Lorri Mon
A virtual environment study in entrepreneurship education of young children
Angela M Pereira, Paulo Martins, Leonel Morgado, Benjamim Fonseca
Second Life Physics : Virtual, Real or Surreal?
Renato P. dos Santos
Second Life and Classical Music Education: Developing Iconography That Encourages Human Interaction
David Thomas Schwartz
3D virtual learning in counselor education: Using Second Life in counselor skill development
Victoria Lynn Walker
Marjorie A. Zielke, Thomas Roome, Alice B. Krueger
“Think Pieces”
Games, Learning, and 21st Century Survival Skills
James Paul Gee
Can We Move Beyond Visual Metaphors? Virtual World Provocations and Second Life
Pamela G. Taylor
Interactive Online Exhibits and Demonstrations
Visualizing Atomic Orbitals Using Second Life
Andrew Stuart Lang, David Kobilnyk
Between snapshots and avatars: using visual methodologies for fieldwork in Second Life
Paula Roush, Ming Nie, Matthew Wheeler
Research-in-brief papers
Use of a virtual world system in sports coach education for reproducing team handball movements
Antonio Lopes, Bruno Pires, Marcio Cardoso, Arnaldo Santos, Filipe Peixinho, Pedro Sequeira , Leonel Morgado, Hugo Paredes, Oleguer Camerino Foguet
Assembled (rush to press papers)
Theresa A. O’Connell, John D. Grantham, Kevin A. Workman, Wyatt Wong
