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Volume 2, Number 1 (2009):

Pedagogy, Education and Innovation

Cover 2(1) 2009

The editorial team for this issue includes:

 

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 of the Journal of Virtual Worlds Research 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. We encourage participation from a broad range of academics, researchers, educators, and educational practitioners from across the disciplinary spectrum – including, but not limited to: curriculum development, educational administration, distance education, information and knowledge management, instructional technology, e-learning, communication and education, sociology, art education, and visual culture. We strongly encourage submissions that illustrate key findings with examples and case studies; experimental research; pedagogical innovations; and best practices for the integration of virtual worlds technologies into the learning experience.

Issue Editors' 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


An integrated framework for simulation-based training on video and in a virtual world

David Chodos, Eleni Stroulia, Parisa Naeimi

 

Using Second Life for Problem Based Learning in computer science programming

Micaela Esteves, Benjamim Fonseca, Leonel Morgado, Paulo Martins

 

Beyond the Game: Quest Atlantis as an Online Learning Experience for Gifted Elementary Students

Jackie Gerstein

 

Virtual Education: Teaching Media Studies in Second Life

David Kurt Herold

 

Canadian Border Simulation at Loyalist College

Ken Hudson, Kathryn deGast-Kennedy 

 

Using Second Life to Teach Operations Management 

Peggy Daniels Lee

 

Questions and Answers in a Virtual World : Educators and Librarians as Information Providers in Second Life

Lorri Mon

 

A virtual environment study in entrepreneurship education of young children

Angela M Pereira, Paulo Martins, Leonel Morgado, Benjamim Fonseca

 

Second Life Physics : Virtual, Real or Surreal?

Renato P. dos Santos

 

Second Life and Classical Music Education: Developing Iconography That Encourages Human Interaction

David Thomas Schwartz

 

3D virtual learning in counselor education: Using Second Life in counselor skill development

Victoria Lynn Walker

 

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

“Think Pieces”

Games, Learning, and 21st Century Survival Skills

James Paul Gee 
 

Can We Move Beyond Visual Metaphors? Virtual World Provocations and Second Life

Pamela G. Taylor

Interactive Online Exhibits and Demonstrations

Visualizing Atomic Orbitals Using Second Life 

Andrew Stuart Lang, David Kobilnyk
 

Between snapshots and avatars: using visual methodologies for fieldwork in Second Life 

Paula Roush, Ming Nie, Matthew Wheeler

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

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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2012 Call for Reviewers

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Volume 5, Number 1 (2012)

Theme: Assembled (2012)

Call: papers in the system

Guest Editors:

David Kurt Herold, HK Polytechnic University, Hong Kong

Natalia Rybas, Indiana University East

Shailey Minocha, The Open University, UK

 

Publication: 2012 Q1

Status: Call is close - now in editing

 

Volume 5, Number 2 (2012)

Theme: Asian Perspectives

CallCFP: Asian Perspective

Guest Editors:

Kenneth Y T Lim, National Institute of Education, Singapore

Young Hoan Cho, National Institute of Education, Singapore

Michael Vallance, Future University, Hakodate, Japan

 

Publication: 2012 Q3

Status: Call done. Please Submit.

 

Volume 5, Number 3 (2012)

Theme: Managerial and Commercial Applications

Call: CFP: Managerial and Commercial Applications

Guest Editors:

Shu Schiller, Wright State University
Brian Mennecke, Iowa State University
Fiona Fui-Hoon Nah, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

 

Publication: 2012 Q4

Status: Call done. Please Submit.

 

MCIS 2012 A Special Call

Real Virtual Worlds and Serious Games

September 2012, Guimarães, Portugal

Call: CFP: Real Virtual Worlds and Serious Games

 

Volume 6, Number 1 (2013)

Theme: Assembled (2013)

Call: TBD

Guest Editors:

TBD

 

Publication: 2013 Q1

Status: Working on Call

 

Volume 6, Number 2 (2013)

Theme: Law and Virtual Worlds

Call: CFP: Law and Virtual Worlds

Guest Editors:

Melissa de Zwart, University of Adelaide, Australia
Greg Lastowka, Rutgers University, US
Dan Hunter, New York Law School, US
 

Publication: 2013 Q2

Status: Call done. Please Submit.

 

Volume 6, Number 3 (2013)

Theme: Impact (on People, Places, and Organizations)

Call: TBD

Guest Editors:

TBD

 

Publication: 2013 Q4

Status: enlisting editors