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The Road Less Travelled: The Journey of Immersion into the Virtual Field
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Fitzsimons, Sabrina – Ethnography and Education, 2013
This article provides an account of my experience of immersion as a third-level teacher into the three-dimensional multi-user virtual world Second Life for research purposes. An ethnographic methodology was employed. Three stages in this journey are identified: separation, transition and transformation. In presenting this journey of immersion, it…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Computer Simulation, Virtual Classrooms, Educational Research