Articles
Volume 1, Number 1 (July 2008): Virtual Worlds Research: Past, Present and Future
Volume 1, Number 2 (November 2008): Consumer Behavior in Virtual Worlds
Volume 1, Number 3 (February 2009): Cultures of Virtual Worlds
Volume 2, Number 1 (April 2009): Pedagogy, Education and Innovation in Virtual Worlds
Editor-in-Chief's Corner
| 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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Editor's Corner
| Introduction: Pedagogy, Education and Innovation in Virtual Worlds |
| Leslie Jarmon, Kenneth Y. T. Lim, B. Stephen Carpenter, II |
| An Ecology of Embodied Interaction: Pedagogy and homo virtualis |
| Leslie Jarmon |
| Virtual Worlds as Educational Experience: Living and Learning in Interesting Times |
| B. Stephen Carpenter, II |
| The Six Learnings of Second Life: a Framework for Designing Curricular Interventions In-world |
| Kenneth Lim |
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 Composite Adult Learning Model for Virtual World Residents with Disabilities: A Case Study of the Virtual Ability Second Life® Island |
| Marjorie A. Zielke, Thomas Roome |
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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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