Virtual worlds
Subtitle: controversies at the frontier of education
By: editors, Kieron Sheehy, Rebecca Ferguson and Gill Clough.
Contributors: Sheehy, Kieron.; Ferguson, Rebecca.; Clough, Gill.
Publisher: Nova Science Publishers
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Hauppauge, N.Y
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781608762613
Subjects: Virtual reality in education
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : challenging education in virtual worlds / Rebecca Ferguson, Kieron Sheehy and Gill Clough; title: Virtual worlds : the states of play / Kieron Sheehy and Dan Seamans; title: Living in immaterial worlds : who are we when we learn and teach in virtual worlds? / Anna Peachey; title: The business of child protection in educational virtual worlds / Kieron Sheehy and Tamara Littleton; title: Learning together and alone in virtual worlds / Judy Robertson and Nicole Cargill-Kipar; title: Virtual worlds are authentic sites for learning / Gill Clough and Rebecca Ferguson; title: 21st-century skills : all dressed up in the technology of the knowledge age? / Jonathan Rix; title: When educational worlds collide / Peter Twining; title: Breaking down the barriers / Rebecca Ferguson and Kieron Sheehy; title: Inclusive education and virtual worlds : the Teacher Embodiment and Learning Affordance Framework (TEALEAF) / Kieron Sheehy.