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Direct linkBravo, Javier; García-Magariño, Iván – Journal of Interactive Learning Research, 2015
Distance education started being limited in comparison to traditional education. Distance teachers and educational organizations have overcome most of these limits, but some other limits still remain as challenges. One of these challenges is to collaboratively learn concepts in an immersive way, similarly to the education "in situ".…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Distance Education, Learning Activities, Cooperative Learning
Schmidt, Matthew; Galyen, Krista; Laffey, James; Babiuch, Ryan; Schmidt, Carla – Journal of Interactive Learning Research, 2014
Design-based research (DBR) and open source software are both acknowledged as potentially productive ways for advancing learning technologies. These approaches have practical benefits for the design and development process and for building and leveraging community to augment and sustain design and development. This report presents a case study of…
Descriptors: Design, Research, Educational Technology, Research and Development
Sarachan, Jeremy; Burk, Nanci; Day, Kenneth; Trevett-Smith, Matthew – Journal of Interactive Learning Research, 2013
Virtual worlds have become an invaluable space for online learning and the exploration of digital cultures. Communication departments can benefit from using these spaces to educate their students in the logistics of virtual worlds and as a way to better understand how the process of interpersonal and global communication functions in both online…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Cooperative Learning, Interpersonal Communication, Computer Mediated Communication
Falconer, Liz – Journal of Interactive Learning Research, 2013
This paper describes and discusses a case study of postgraduate students undertaking accident investigation and risk assessment exercises in an online virtual world as part of their course curriculum. These exercises were constructed to overcome the ethical and practical barriers inherent in real-world exercises. In particular this paper focusses…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Computer Simulation, Computer Assisted Instruction, Electronic Learning
Zieger, Laura; Farber, Matthew – Journal of Interactive Learning Research, 2012
Technological advances on the Internet now enable students to develop participation skills in virtual worlds. Similar to controlling a character in a video game, multi-user virtual environments, or MUVEs, allow participants to interact with others in synchronous, online settings. The authors of this study created a link between MUVEs and…
Descriptors: Virtual Classrooms, Social Studies, Grade 7, Citizen Participation
Mimirinis, Mike; Bhattacharya, Madhumita – Journal of Interactive Learning Research, 2007
Although the advent of VLEs (Virtual Learning Environments) promised more flexible and independent learning, concerns have also been raised about the quality of their pedagogical effects. This article presents the results of a case study which endeavoured to explore the relationship between approaches to learning and studying, and perceptions of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Virtual Classrooms, Instructional Design, Instructional Materials
