Effects of Object Building Activities in Second Life on Players´ Spatial Reasoning

The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of object building activities in Second Life on playerspsila spatial reasoning and to explore the relationships between learnerspsila information perceiving styles and spatial reasoning. The participants of this study included 70 undergraduate students who were taking the class dasiaNew Media in Educationpsila. For this study, Kolbpsilas learning style inventory was administered to the participants in advance of activities in Second Life. Also they were given instructions on building objects related to spatial reasoning activities (e.g., analysis and synthesis, deductive reasoning, development and application of visualization methods, systematic approach, and transformation) in Second Life. As a result, it was discovered that Second Life activities are more effective for the abstract conceptualization group than for the concrete experience group. This implies that activities provided in Second Life were more positively effective to abstract conceptualization learners on their information processing such as spatial reasoning.