USALSIM: Learning and Professional Practicing in a 3D Virtual World

The optimal approach to learning a target culture is to experience it in its real-life context through interaction. The new 3D virtual world platform under consideration, Blue Mars Lite, enables users to be immersed in existing Google Maps Street View panorama, globally. Google Maps with Street View contains a massive collection of 360-degree street-level images of the most popular places worldwide. The authors explore the possibility of integrating these global panoramas, in which multiple users can explore, discuss, and role-play, into the classroom. The goal of this chapter is to shed new light on merging Google Street View with the 3D virtual world for cultural learning purposes. This approach shows itself to be a promising teaching method that can help EFL learners to develop positive attitudes toward the target culture and cultural learning in this new cultural setting.

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Exploring the Use of a 3D Virtual Environment in Cultural Transmission to Show Chinese Cultural Project “Confucius' Journey” as an Example

Advances in Media, Entertainment, and the Arts - Analyzing Art, Culture, and Design in the Digital Age ◽

10.4018/978-1-4666-8679-3.ch009 ◽

2015 ◽

pp. 92-104

Author(s):

Yungang Wei ◽

Xiaoye Tan ◽

Xiaoran Qin ◽

Xiaohang Yu ◽

Bo Sun ◽

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Keyword(s):

Virtual Environment ◽

Virtual World ◽

Cultural Transmission ◽

Virtual Human ◽

Virtual Technology ◽

Scene Construction ◽

Intelligent Interaction ◽

3D Virtual World ◽

3D Virtual Environment ◽

World Environment

The use of 3D virtual technology in cultural transmission has been more and more innovative and popular in the recent years. Meanwhile, with the high interactivity, experience of virtual technology deeply rooted in the people's hearts, the use of 3D virtual world in cultural transmission shows an evident advantage. Through scene construction and intelligent interaction in a 3D virtual world environment, we developed the project “Confucius' Journey”. And considering the problems in such applications, such as the lack of interaction and reduced effectiveness in representing the application purpose, we explored interactive objects and virtual human technology. In addition, we can verify the advantage of using the 3D platform via the experimental results.

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Knowledge Creation and Student Engagement Within 3D Virtual Worlds

Student Engagement and Participation ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-2584-4.ch025 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 507-525

Author(s):

Brian G. Burton ◽

Barbara Martin

Keyword(s):

Student Engagement ◽

Virtual Worlds ◽

Knowledge Creation ◽

Virtual World ◽

Learning Task ◽

Knowledge Conversion ◽

3D Virtual Worlds ◽

3D Virtual World ◽

Knowledge Spiral

Examined in this 3D Virtual World case study was undergraduate student engagement on a learning task and student creation of knowledge. After creating a 3D didactic constructivist virtual world, student conversations were recorded for analysis using Hara, Bonk, and Angeli's (2000) engagement framework and Nonaka and Takeuchi's (1995) knowledge creation theory. The five forms of student engagement augmented the learning process and a complete knowledge spiral was documented, emphasizing the use of the four modes of knowledge conversion. Though limited in time and scope, results further suggest that a highly engaged community of learners was created.

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Assessing 3D Virtual World Learning Environments with the CIMPLe System

Virtual Environments for Corporate Education - Advances in Higher Education and Professional Development ◽

10.4018/978-1-61520-619-3.ch009 ◽

2010 ◽

pp. 147-168

Author(s):

Sean D. Williams ◽

Deborah M. Switzer

Keyword(s):

Learning Environments ◽

Virtual World ◽

Interface Design ◽

Systems Design ◽

Holistic Approach ◽

Instructional Systems ◽

Experience Design ◽

User Experience Design ◽

Design Learning ◽

3D Virtual World

This chapter introduces an assessment rubric for virtual world learning environments (VWLEs) built from proven principles of user experience design, instructional design, interface design, learning theory, technical communication, instructional systems design (ISD), and VIE motivation theory. Titled the “CIMPLe System,” this rubric captures the ways that context, interactivity, motivation, presence, and cognitive load weave together to form a successful VWLE. The CIMPLe System offers an advance in how educators can assess the quality and predict the success of the VWLEs that they build. The holistic approach achieved in the CIMPLe System arises from the multidisciplinary approach represented in the tool. As designers consider what to build into the environment, they can refer to the CIMPLe System as a checklist to ensure that the environment meets the needs that the cross-disciplinary theory suggests are necessary.

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Service Design for 3D Virtual World Learning Applications

10.1109/icws.2008.19 ◽

2008 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Hong Cai

Keyword(s):

Virtual World ◽

Service Design ◽

3D Virtual World

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