Friday 23 March 2012

The Virtual Worlds Best Practice in Education unconference brought together some excellent resources on
practices for education in virtual environments, and assessment in virtual worlds, reproduced below:

Best Practice Resources

Readings:
Journal of Virtual World Research, Vol 2. No. 1
Pedagogy, Education and Innovation in Education
http://jvwresearch.org/index.php/past-issues/21-pedagogy-education-and-innovation
VEJ Virtual Education Journal – September Issue http://www.virtualeducationjournal.com/

Organizations:
AERA Applied Research in Virtual Environments for Learning http://arvelsig.ning.com/
ISTE SIGVE http://sigve.iste.wikispaces.net/

Second Life sites:
ISTE Island
CAVE (Community of Applied Virtual Educators)
Virtual Pioneers
EdTech Island

Educator Research Groups and Social Media:
ARVEL – Second Life group
ISTE – Second Life group
Virtual Pioneers – Second Life Group
AERA ARVELSIG twitter @arvel

Assessment in Virtual Worlds

Resources and Readings:
Dede, C. Planning for Neomillennial Learning Styles, Educause Quarterly http://www.educause.edu/EDUCAUSE+Quarterly/EDUCAUSEQuarterlyMagazineVolum/PlanningforNeomillennialLearni/157325
Clarke, J. Studying the Potential of Virtual Performance assessments for Measuring Student Achievement in Science. http://virtualassessment.org/publications/aera_2009_clarke.pdf
Virtual Assessments Project http://virtualassessment.org/participants/participants.html

Elluminate Session - watch the following keynote from Global Education Conference 2011
Chris Dede “How Immersion in Virtual Environments Aids Students in the Real World”
https://sas.elluminate.com/m.jnlp?sid=2008350&password=M.1B3D99DCC4FF0D2C6B978CCFF6991D

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