A taxonomy of virtual worlds usage in education
A taxonomy of virtual worlds usage in education
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DOI：
10.1111/j.1467-8535.2011.01263.x
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发表时间：
2012-11-01
影响因子：
6.6
通讯作者：
Jiang, Shangyi
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作者：
Duncan, Ishbel;Miller, Alan;Jiang, Shangyi
虚拟世界是现代教育实践中的重要工具，也是社会化、娱乐化和协作工作的实验室。本文聚焦于虚拟世界在教育中的应用，并综合了来自世界各地的100多篇已发表的学术论文、报告和教育网站。然后从这些论文中得出一个分类法，描述了当前关于虚拟世界使用的理论和实践工作，特别是在教育领域。分类法确定了相关教育理论和模拟世界或环境中当前研究和实践的丰富脉络，但它也表明在评估、评分和可及性等重要领域缺乏工作。
Virtual worlds are an important tool in modern education practices as well as providing socialisation, entertainment and a laboratory for collaborative work. This paper focuses on the uses of virtual worlds for education and synthesises over 100 published academic papers, reports and educational websites from around the world. A taxonomy is then derived from these papers, delineating current theoretical and practical work on virtual world usage, specifically in the field of education. The taxonomy identifies rich veins of current research and practice in associated educational theory and in simulated worlds or environments, yet it also demonstrates the paucity of work in important areas such as evaluation, grading and accessibility.