Vol 2, No 1 (2009)

Pedagogy, Education and Innovation

Issue Editors: Leslie Jarmon, University of Texas at Austin, USA; Kenneth Y. T. Lim, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; B. Stephen Carpenter, II, Texas A&M University, USA

This issue is dedicated to exploring the breadth of designs, pedagogies and curricular innovations that are actually already being applied to teaching and learning in virtual worlds.

Table of Contents

Issue Editors' Corner

Introduction: Pedagogy, Education and Innovation in Virtual Worlds
Leslie Jarmon, Kenneth Y. T. Lim, B. Stephen Carpenter, II
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An Ecology of Embodied Interaction: Pedagogy and homo virtualis
Leslie Jarmon
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Virtual Worlds as Educational Experience: Living and Learning in Interesting Times
B. Stephen Carpenter, II
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The Six Learnings of Second Life: a Framework for Designing Curricular Interventions In-world
Kenneth Lim
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Peer Reviewed Research Papers

Learning in a different life: Pre-service education students using an online virtual world.
Chris Campbell
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An integrated framework for simulation-based training on video and in a virtual world
David Chodos, Eleni Stroulia, Parisa Naeimi
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Using Second Life for Problem Based Learning in computer science programming
Micaela Esteves, Benjamim Fonseca, Leonel Morgado, Paulo Martins
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Beyond the Game: Quest Atlantis as an Online Learning Experience for Gifted Elementary Students
Jackie Gerstein
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Virtual Education: Teaching Media Studies in Second Life
David Kurt Herold
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Canadian Border Simulation at Loyalist College
Ken Hudson, Kathryn deGast-Kennedy
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Using Second Life to Teach Operations Management
Peggy Daniels Lee
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Questions and Answers in a Virtual World : Educators and Librarians as Information Providers in Second Life
Lorri Mon
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A virtual environment study in entrepreneurship education of young children
Angela M Pereira, Paulo Martins, Leonel Morgado, Benjamim Fonseca
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Second Life Physics : Virtual, Real or Surreal?
Renato P. dos Santos
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Second Life and Classical Music Education: Developing Iconography That Encourages Human Interaction
David Thomas Schwartz
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3D virtual learning in counselor education: Using Second Life in counselor skill development
Victoria Lynn Walker
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A Pedagogical Model for Virtual World Residents: A Case Study of the Virtual Ability Second Life Island
Marjorie A. Zielke, Thomas Roome, Alice B. Krueger
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“Think Pieces”

Games, Learning, and 21st Century Survival Skills
James Paul Gee
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Can We Move Beyond Visual Metaphors? Virtual World Provocations and Second Life
Pamela G. Taylor
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Interactive Online Exhibits and Demonstrations

Visualizing Atomic Orbitals Using Second Life
Andrew Stuart Lang, David Kobilnyk
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Between snapshots and avatars: using visual methodologies for fieldwork in Second Life
Paula Roush, Ming Nie, Matthew Wheeler
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Research-in-brief papers

Use of a virtual world system in sports coach education for reproducing team handball movements
Antonio Lopes, Bruno Pires, Marcio Cardoso, Arnaldo Santos, Filipe Peixinho, Pedro Sequeira , Leonel Morgado, Hugo Paredes, Oleguer Camerino Foguet
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Assembled (rush to press papers)

Leveraging Game-Playing Skills, Expectations and Behaviors of Digital Natives to Improve Visual Analytic Tools
Theresa A. O'Connell, John D. Grantham, Kevin A. Workman, Wyatt Wong
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