Learning online with games, simulations, and virtual worlds
Subtitle: strategies for online instruction
By: Clark Aldrich.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Jossey-Bass guides to online teaching and learning; Jossey-Bass guides to online teaching and learning
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Published: 2009
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 134
ISBN-13: 9780470438343
Subjects: Education -- Simulation methods; Virtual reality in education; Computer games; Computer-assisted instruction
Description: Resource added for the Paraeducator (Instructor Assistant) program 105222.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: What are games, simulations, and virtual worlds really, and why should I care. Understanding highly interactive virtual environments; title: Embracing interactivity; title: Sims: a new model of content; title: Highly interactive content from the students' and instructor's perspective; title: Choosing and using a highly interactive virtual environment. Identifying the right approach for the right need; title: Doing the prep work; title: Integrating and piloting; title: A brief example of a simulation deployment; title: The processes of using a HIVE and the role of coaching; title: Creating evaluation strategies; title: Other considerations. Selling interactive environments internally : getting buy in from administrators, department heads, colleagues, parents and even students; title: Epilogue: The new attraction of distance learning.