Coming down to Earth: Helping Teachers Use 3D Virtual Worlds in Across-Spaces Learning Situations

Autor/inn/en	Muñoz-Cristóbal, Juan A.; Prieto, Luis P.; Asensio-Pérez, Juan I.; Martínez-Monés, Alejandra; Jorrín-Abellán, Iván M.; Dimitriadis, Yannis
Titel	Coming down to Earth: Helping Teachers Use 3D Virtual Worlds in Across-Spaces Learning Situations
Quelle	In: Educational Technology & Society, 18 (2015) 1, S.13-26 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1436-4522
Schlagwörter	Educational Technology; Computer Simulation; Simulated Environment; Technology Integration; Web Based Instruction; Technology Uses in Education; Mixed Methods Research; Educational Environment; Information Management; Integrated Learning Systems; Models; Foreign Countries; Higher Education; Schools of Education; Spain + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Unterrichtsmedien; Computergrafik; Computersimulation; Künstliche Umwelt; Web Based Training; Technology enhanced learning; Technology aided learning; Technologieunterstütztes Lernen; Lernumgebung; Pädagogische Umwelt; Schulumwelt; Procurement of information; Informationsbeschaffung; Analogiemodell; Ausland; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Erziehungswissenschaftliche Fakultät; Spanien
Abstract	Different approaches have explored how to provide seamless learning across multiple ICT-enabled physical and virtual spaces, including three-dimensional virtual worlds (3DVW). However, these approaches present limitations that may reduce their acceptance in authentic educational practice: The difficulties of authoring and sharing teacher-created designs across different 3DVW platforms, or the lack of integration of 3DVWs with existing technologies in the classroom ecosystem (e.g., widespread web-based learning platforms such as Moodle, or mobile augmented reality applications). Focusing on a specific kind of 3DVW (virtual globes, such as Google Earth, used like 3DVWs), we propose a system that enables teachers to deploy across-spaces learning situations, which can be authored with a plethora of existing learning design tools, that involve different common web-based learning platforms, mobile AR applications and multiple kinds of virtual globes. A prototype of the architecture has been developed to evaluate this novel approach. The mixed-methods evaluation performed comprised both a feature analysis and a study where a teacher deployed an authentic across-spaces learning situation including Google Earth used as a 3DVW. Such evaluation shows that the system enables teachers deploy learning situations over different technological ecosystems composed by physical and web spaces, as well as by 3DVWs. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01