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Wang, Airong; Steinvall, Anders; Deutschmann, Mats – International Journal of Virtual and Personal Learning Environments, 2014
This study investigates the effects of unequal power relations on participation in a group of student teachers and invited professionals in two collaborative workshops in Second Life. The data includes recordings, group reflections, and individual questionnaires. Participation was examined from the aspects of floor space, turn length, and…
Descriptors: Power Structure, Student Teachers, Professional Personnel, Cooperative Learning
Deutschmann, Mats; Steinvall, Anders – European Association for Computer-Assisted Language Learning (EUROCALL), 2010
This paper presents further innovative use of virtual worlds under the pilot stages of ASSIS (A Second Step in Second Life), a project funded by Umea University. One of the aims of the project is to make use of the affordances offered by Second Life in order to raise sociolinguistic language awareness among teacher trainees and other students…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, College Students, Sociolinguistics, Cross Cultural Studies
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Haake, Magnus; Gulz, Agneta – International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education, 2009
The paper presents a theoretical framework addressing three aspects of embodied pedagogical agents: visual static appearance, pedagogical role, and communicative style. The framework is then applied to a user study where 90 school children (aged 12-15) in a dummy multimedia program were presented with either an instructor or a learning companion…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computer Assisted Instruction, Multimedia Materials, Computer Graphics