Teaching and learning in-world: Lessons learnt from the AVATAR and the ST.ART projects

Author

Mascitti, Ilaria ; Fedele, Francesco ; Marco, Daniela Di ; Fasciani, Monica ; Feituri, Mikail ; Stefanelli, Cristina

Author_Institution

Int. Relation & R&D Office, Unicversita degli Studi Gugliemo Marconi (USGM), Rome, Italy

fYear

2011

fDate

21-23 Sept. 2011

Firstpage

232

Lastpage

236

Abstract

This paper gives an overview of the educational potential of virtual worlds and draws on the results of the AVATAR project - Added value of teaching in a virtual world - and the ST.ART project - Street Artists in a virtual space - both funded with support by the European Commission under the Lifelong Learning Programme Comenius. The paper describes the educational, pedagogical, cultural and motivational benefits of using virtual worlds in educational settings.

Keywords

Internet; avatars; computer aided instruction; continuing professional development; teaching; AVATAR project; European Commission; Lifelong Learning Programme Comenius; ST.ART project; cultural benefit; e-learning; educational benefit; motivational benefit; pedagogical benefit; street artists; teaching; virtual space; virtual world educational potential; Art; Avatars; Educational institutions; Electronic learning; Second Life; Three dimensional displays; E-Learning; E-moderating; V-Learning; Virtual Worlds;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Interactive Collaborative Learning (ICL), 2011 14th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Piestany

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1748-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICL.2011.6059581

Filename

6059581