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Finding the discipline: Assessing student activity in Second Life
Scott Grant; Rosemary Clerehan
Australasian Journal of Educational Technology Vol. 27, No. 5 (Jan 01, 2011)
For the second-language learner, the affordances of a virtual world have the potential to confer benefits conventionally aligned with real world experiences. However, little is known about the pedagogical benefits linked to the specific...
Language: English
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Finding the Discipline: Assessing Student Activity in "Second Life"
Scott Grant; Rosemary Clerehan
Australasian Journal of Educational Technology Vol. 27, No. 5 (2011)
For the second-language learner, the affordances of a virtual world have the potential to confer benefits conventionally aligned with real world experiences. However, little is known about the pedagogical benefits linked to the specific...
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Language Learning in Virtual Worlds: The Role of Foreign Language and Technical Anxiety
Scott Grant; Hui Huang; Sarah Pasfield-Neofitou
Journal of Virtual Worlds Research Vol. 6, No. 1 (Apr 09, 2013)
This project examines whether or not learners feel less foreign language anxiety (FLA) in an online multiuser 3D virtual world simulation than in the real world classroom. Previous research has shown FLA to have negative effects on learner...
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Lost in Second Life: Virtual Embodiment and Language Learning via Multimodal Communication
Sarah Pasfield-Neofitou; Hui Huang; Scott Grant
Educational Technology Research and Development Vol. 63, No. 5 (2015) pp. 709–726
Increased recognition of the role of the body and environment in cognition has taken place in recent decades in the form of new theories of embodied and extended cognition. The growing use of ever more sophisticated computer-generated 3D virtual...
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Taming the devil: A game-based approach to teaching immunology
Scott Nankervis; Grant Meredith; Peter Vamplew; Nina Fotinatos
ASCILITE - Australian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education Annual Conference 2012 (November 2012)
Immunology is a complex field requiring rapid memorisation of numerous components. An in- depth understanding of cellular and molecular biology is required before even moderately advanced concepts can be taught. We sought methods that actively...
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The impact of Chinese language lessons in a virtual world on university students' self-efficacy beliefs
Michael Henderson; Hui Huang; Scott Grant; Lyn Henderson
Australasian Journal of Educational Technology Vol. 28, No. 3 (Jan 01, 2012) pp. 400–419
It was found in the two-year study reported in this article that a single collaborative language lesson using Second Life can result in a statistically significant increase in student self-efficacy beliefs across a range of specific and...
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What are users thinking in a virtual world lesson? Using stimulated recall interviews to report student cognition, and its triggers
Lyn Henderson; Michael Henderson; Scott Grant; Hui Huang
Journal of Virtual Worlds Research Vol. 3, No. 1 (Apr 29, 2010)
Stimulated recall is an empirically rigorous introspection data collection tool that allows the interviewer to elicit, identify and explore participants\u2019 thinking. In this study it was used to identify the types of thinking skills and...
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Supporting the co-generation of work-based learning designs
Michael Henderson; Hui Huang; Scott Grant; Lyn Henderson; Michelle L.L. Honey; Scott Diener; Kelley Connor; Max Veltman; David Bodily
ASCILITE - Australian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education Annual Conference 2009 (2009) pp. 475–479
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Educational Technology Research Journals: "Journal of Computer Assisted Learning," 2002-2011
Kyle R. Welch; Grant D. Zabriskie; Scott M. Ashton; Jered Borup; Richard E. West
Educational Technology Vol. 54, No. 1 (2014) pp. 40–46
In this study, the authors analyzed all research articles published between 2002 and 2011 in the "Journal of Computer Assisted Learning," in order to understand the research topics methods, major contributing authors, and most-cited...
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Covering all the Bases: WebQuest Across the Curriculum
Brenda Key; John Sfondilias; MaryEllen Bunton; Scott Wennerdahl; Carolyn Grant; Marjorie Henderson
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2003 (2003) pp. 1351–1352
Our multidisciplinary WebQuest uses the theme and imagery of Baseball to provide an engaging, cohesive arena for explorations in Math, Science, Language Arts and History. The objective is to use a familiar activity, in this case, baseball, as a...
Topics: Schools, Learning Objects, Middle School Education
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An Informal Community of Practice: The Case of the DEHub Virtual Worlds Working Group
Helen Farley; Sue Gregory; Scott Grant; Des Butler; Lisa Jacka; Lindy Orwin; Janice K. Jones
ASCILITE - Australian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education Annual Conference 2012 (November 2012)
The DEHub Virtual Worlds Working Group has an informal membership of nearly 200 members with an interest in education and virtual worlds within the Australian and New Zealand context. Members come from a variety of academic disciplines and may be...
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Changing worlds: Virtual worlds for higher degree research, supervision and networking.
Lisa Jacka; Sue Gregory; Frederick Stokes-Thompson; Lindy McKeown Orwin; Helen Farley; Allan Ellis; Scott Grant; Merle Hearns
ASCILITE - Australian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education Annual Conference 2011 (2011) pp. 622–623
The DEHub Virtual Worlds Working Group (VWWG) consists of Australian and New Zealand higher education academics investigating the role that virtual worlds (VWs) play in the future of education. A sub group of the VWWG that includes Higher Degree...
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Sustaining the future through virtual worlds
Sue Gregory; Lisa Jacka; Frederick Stokes-Thompson; Helen Farley; Sheila Scutter; Penelope Neuendorf; Shame Matthews; Jaime Garcia; Grant Meredith; Scott Grant; Angela Giovanangeli; Andrew Cram; Tracey Muir; Jenny Grenfell; Anthony Williams; Anglea McCarthy; Brent Gregory; Stefan Schutt; Denise Wood; Lindy Orwin; Ian Warren; Matt Bower; Des Butler; Jay Jay Jegathesan; Anton Bogdanovych
ASCILITE - Australian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education Annual Conference 2012 (November 2012)
Virtual worlds (VWs) continue to be used extensively in Australia and New Zea land higher education institutions although the tendency towards making unrealistic claims of efficacy and popularity appears to be over. Some educators at higher...
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Australian higher education institutions transforming the future of teaching and learning through 3D virtual worlds
Sue Gregory; Brent Gregory; Matthew Campbell; Helen Farley; Suku Sinnappan; Shannon Kennedy-CLark; David Craven; Deborah Murdoch; Denise Wood; Jenny Grenfell; Angela Thomas; Carol Matthews; Kerrie Smith; Ian Warren; Heinz Dreher; Lindy McKeown; Allan Ellis ; Mathew Hillier; Steven Pace; Andrew Cram; Lyn Hay Charles; Scott Grant; Mark J.W. Lee
ASCILITE - Australian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education Annual Conference 2010 (2010) pp. 399–415
What are educators' motivations for using virtual worlds with their students? Are they using them to support the teaching of professions and if this is the case, do they introduce virtual worlds into the curriculum to develop and/or expand students' ...
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How are Australian higher education institutions contributing to change through innovative teaching and learning in virtual worlds?
Brent Gregory; Sue Gregory; Denise Wood; Yvonne Masters; Mathew Hillier; Frederick Stokes-Thompson; Anton Bogdanovych; Des Butler; Lyn Hay; Kim Flintoff; Stefan Schutt; Robyn Alderton; Ieva Stupans; Lindy McKeown Orwin; Andrew Cram; Grant Meredith; Jenny Grenfell; Francesca Collins; Allan Ellis; Lisa Jacka; Ian Larson; Andrew Fluck; Helen Farley; Jay Jay Jegathesan; Dale Linegar; Debbie McCormick; Jason Zagami; John Campbell; Angela Thomas; Nona Muldoon; Ali Abbas; Ian Burnett; Sheila Scutter; David Ellis; Suku Sinnappan; Katrina Neville; Ashley Aitken; Simeon Simoff; Xiangyu Wang; Mandy Salomon; Kay Souter; Greg Wadley; Michael Jacobson; Anne Newstead; Gary Hayes; Scott Grant; Alyona Yusupova
ASCILITE - Australian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education Annual Conference 2011 (2011) pp. 475–490
Over the past decade, teaching and learning in virtual worlds has been at the forefront of many higher education institutions around the world. The DEHub Virtual Worlds Working Group (VWWG) consisting of Australian and New Zealand higher education...