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Richards, Debbie; Fassbender, Eric; Bilgin, Ayse; Thompson, William Forde – ALT-J: Research in Learning Technology, 2008
Empirical evidence is needed to corroborate the intuitions of gamers and game developers in understanding the benefits of Immersive Virtual Worlds (IVWs) as a learning environment and the role that music plays within these environments. We report an investigation to determine if background music of the genre typically found in computer-based…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Music, Investigations, Foreign Countries
Livingstone, Daniel; Kemp, Jeremy; Edgar, Edmund – ALT-J: Research in Learning Technology, 2008
While digital virtual worlds have been used in education for a number of years, advances in the capabilities and spread of technology have fed a recent boom in interest in massively multi-user 3D virtual worlds for entertainment, and this in turn has led to a surge of interest in their educational applications. In this paper we briefly review the…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Virtual Classrooms, Educational Environment, Educational Games