Virtual Worlds in Higher Education: Research

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• "Immersive 3D Environments and Multilinguality: Some Non-Intrusive and Dynamic e-learning-oriented Scenarios based on Textual Information"
• "Just Like the Qing Empire": Internet Addiction, MMOGs, and Moral Crisis in Contemporary China
• 3D Virtual Learning in Counselor Education: Using Second Life in counselor skill development
• A Neuroscience Approach to Virtual Reality Experience Using Transcranial Doppler Monitoring
• A Pedagogical Model for Virtual World Residents: A Case Study of the Virtual Ability Second Life Island (2 comments)
• A Simulation Framework for Sensor-Based Systems in Second Life
• A study entitled "Learning in the Wild of a Virtual World"
• A Test of the Law of Demand in a Virtual World: Exploring the Petri Dish Approach to Social Science
• A Use Case Analysis for Learning in 3D MUVE: A Model Based on Key eLearning Activities
• A Virtual Reprise of the Stanley Milgram Obedience Experiments
• Advocating Avatars: The Salesperson in Second Life
• An Analysis of Eye Scanpath Entropy in a Progressively Forming Virtual Environment
• An Integrated Framework for Simulation-based Training on Video and in a Virtual World
• An investigation of the role of background music in IVWs for learning (1 comment)
• Anyone Speak Spanish?
• Assessment in Simulation and Gaming: A Review of the Last 40 Years (7 comments)
• Avatar Appearance & Information Credibility in Second Life
• Between the lines: Making face: practices and interpretations of avatars in everyday media
• Brave new (interactive) worlds: A review of the design affordances and constraints of two 3D virtual worlds as interactive learning environments
• Canadian Border Simulation at Loyalist College
• Chemistry in Second Life
• Cognition and learning in massively multiplayer online games: A critical approach
• Collaborative Virtual Environment Technology for People with Autism
• Collaborative virtual gaming worlds in higher education
• Comparing Group Discussion in Virtual and Physical Environments
• Cultural Framing of Computer/Video Games
• Designing and facilitating learning communities in immersive virtual environments
• Developing a five-stage model of learning in Second Life
• Developing the Media Zoo in Second Life
• Development and evaluation of a virtual campus on Second Life: The case of SecondDMI
• Developments in Business Gaming: A Review of the Past 40 Years
• Dissociation and Second Life: Pathology or transcendence?
• Embodied Social Presence Theory
• Embodiment and presence in virtual worlds: a review
• EmoHeart: Conveying Emotions in Second Life Based on Affect Sensing from Text
• Envisioning the Educational Possibilities of User-Created Virtual Worlds
• Excavating Second Life
• Experiencing information literacy in Second Life
• Expertise-Based Performance Measures in a Virtual Training Environment
• Exploring the educational potential of virtual worlds—Some reflections from the SPP
• Fostering argumentative knowledge construction through enactive role play in Second Life
• From cognitive capability to social reform? Shifting perceptions of learning in immersive virtual worlds
• From Multi-User Virtual Environment to 3D Virtual Learning Environment
• Game-based learning in Second Life®. Do gender and age make a difference?
• Gender Differences in the Impact of Presentational Factors in Human Character Animation on Decisions in Ethical Dilemmas
• Haptic Glove with MR Brakes for Distributed Finger Force Feedback
• Help – Somebody Robbed my Second Life Avatar!
• Human Factors in Haptic Contact of Pliable Surfaces
• I think I can, I think I can, I think I can…I know I can Multi-user Virtual Environments (MUVEs) as a means of developing competence and confidence
• Identifying an appropriate pedagogy for virtual worlds: A Communal Constructivism case study
• Immersive virtual worlds in university-level human geography courses
• Inductive Metanomics: Economic Experiments in Virtual Worlds
• Interacting through avatars: Virtual worlds as a context for online education
• Internationalization: the nexus of virtual worlds and reality
• Investigating Learners’ Attitudes toward Virtual Reality Learning Environments: Based on a Constructivist Approach
• Is it a game? Evidence for social influence in the virtual world
• Laying the groundwork for socialisation and knowledge construction within 3D virtual worlds
• Learning and Teaching in the Panopticon: Ethical and Social Issues in Creating a Virtual Educational Environment
• Learning from Second Life
• Learning in 3-D multiuser virtual environments: Exploring the use of unique 3-D attributes for online problem-based learning
• Learning in a Virtual World: Experience With Using Second Life for Medical Education
• Learning in the Virtual World: the Pedagogical Potentials of Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games
• Learning in the zone: A social constructivist framework for distance education in a 3-dimensional virtual world
• Learning in virtual worlds: Using communities of practice to explain how people learn from play
• Learning science in a virtual reality application: The impacts of animated-virtual actors’ visual complexity
• Leveraging Collaborative Virtual Environment Technology for Inter-Population Research on Persuasion in a Classroom Setting
• Losing the plot – an exploration of narrative collaboration and control in Second Life
• Machinima interventions: innovative approaches to immersive virtual world curriculum integration
• Mediating Media Studies – Stimulating critical awareness in a virtual environment
• Methamphetamine craving induced in an online virtual reality environment.
• MUVE eventedness: An experience like any other
• MUVEnation: A European peer-to-peer learning programme for teacher training in the use of MUVEs in education
• My dragonfly flies upside down! Using Second Life in multimedia design to teach students programming
• Observations of expert communicators in immersive virtual worlds: implications for synchronous discussion
• On the Relationship between My Avatar and Myself
• On the Role of Presence in Mixed Reality
• PowerUp: an accessible virtual world
• Probing the Uncanny Valley with the Eye Size Aftereffect
• Problem-based learning spanning real and virtual words: a case study in Second Life
• Reflections on Play, Pedagogy, and World of Warcraft
• Relating pedagogical and learning space designs in Second Life
• Relationship between Students’ Overall Satisfaction from 3D Virtual Learning Spaces and their Individual Design Components
• Ruling the virtual world
• Second Life and Classical Music Education: Developing Iconography That Encourages Human Interaction
• Second Life in higher education: Assessing the potential for and the barriers to deploying virtual worlds in learning and teachi
• Second Life Physics : Virtual, Real or Surreal?
• Second Life: A Strong Communication Tool in Social Networking and Business (2 comments)
• Second Life: an overview of the potential of 3-D virtual worlds in medical and health education
• Second Life: hype or hyperlearning?
• Self-Representations in Immersive Virtual Environments
• Simulation as a tool for gaming and training in operations management—a case study
• Situating pedagogies, positions and practices in immersive virtual worlds
• SLOODLE: Connecting VLE tools with emergent teaching practice in Second Life
• Socialisation for learning at a distance in a 3-D multi-user virtual environment
• The Case for Education in Virtual Worlds
• The Demographics, Motivations, and Derived Experiences of Users of Massively Multi-User Online Graphical Environments
• The Difference Between Being and Seeing: The Relative Contribution of Self-Perception and Priming to Behavioral Changes via Digi
• The Effects of Activities in Virtual Worlds as a Communication Environment to Understand Each Other
• The Effects of Avatar Appearance in Virtual World
• The effects of immersion and navigation on the acquisition of spatial knowledge of abstract data networks
• The effects of practice teaching sessions in second life on the change in pre-service teachers’ teaching efficacy
• The Evolution of Social Behavior over Time in Second Life
• The Experience of Embodied Space in Virtual Worlds
• The Function of Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation in Educational Virtual Games and Simulations
• The future for (second) life and learning
• The Impact of Unaware Perception on Bodily Interaction in Virtual Reality Environments
• The Influence of Multimodal 3D Visualizations on Learning Acquisition
• The influence of racial embodiment on racial bias in immersive virtual environments
• The Metaverse: Telepresence in 3D Avatar-Driven Digital-Virtual Worlds
• The Proteus Effect
• The Proteus Effect: Behavioural Modification Via Transformations Of Digital Self-Representation
• The Proteus Effect: The Effect of Transformed Self-Representation on Behavior
• The untapped potential of virtual game worlds to shed light on real world epidemics
• The Use of Immersive Virtual Reality in the Learning Sciences: Digital Transformations of Teachers, Students, and Social Context
• Three-dimensional virtual worlds and distance learning: two case studies of Active Worlds as a medium for distance education
• UK university and college technical support for Second Life developers and users (1 comment)
• Uncanny spaces for higher education: teaching and learning in virtual worlds
• Universal Design: Including Everyone in Virtual World Design
• Using a virtual world for transferable skills in gaming education
• Using collaborative virtual environments to plan wind energy installations
• Using Second Life for Problem Based Learning in computer science programming
• Using Second Life in human resource development
• Using Second Life to Teach Operations Management
• Virtual Doppelgangers: Psychological Effects of Avatars Who Ignore Their Owners
• Virtual Education: Teaching Media Studies in Second Life (3 comments)
• Virtual Experiences, Physical Behaviors: The Effect of Presence on Imitation of an Eating Avatar
• Virtual history: a socially networked pedagogy of enlightenment
• Virtual Possibilities: A Constructivist Examination of the Educational Applications of Second Life
• Virtual prejudice
• Virtual Reality: A Survival Guide for the Social Scientist
• Virtual Self-Modeling: The Effects of Vicarious Reinforcement and Identification on Exercise Behaviors
• Virtual Virgins and Vamps: The Effects of Exposure to Female Characters’ Sexualized Appearance and Gaze in an Immersive Virtual
• Virtual World and Real World Permeability: Transference of Positive Benefits for Marginalized Gay and Lesbian Populations
• Virtual world teaching, experiential learning, and assessment: An interdisciplinary communication course in Second Life
• Virtual worlds and learning
• Virtual Worlds as Cultural Models
• Virtual Worlds, the IRB and a User's Bill of Rights
• Virtually True: Children’s Acquisition of False Memories in Virtual Reality
• Web GIS in practice V: 3-D interactive and real-time mapping in Second Life
• Welfare Epics? The Rhetoric of Rewards in World of Warcraft
• What are the learning affordances of 3-D virtual environments?
• What's in a question? The case of students' enactments in the Second Life virtual world
• World of Whyville