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- Building Knowledge in the Virtual World – Influence of Real Life RelationshipsPublication . Loureiro, Ana; Bettencourt da Cruz, Teresa Mariahis paper intends to present a preliminary PhD research that is being developed by the authors, with the intention to determine how to improve teaching and learning situations, at the university level, based on experiences in immersive virtual worlds. The authors have realized that, nowadays, courses don’t fulfill our students’ needs. They belong to a networked and multitasking generation, and what they get from today’s teaching strategy does not, in many situations, fulfill students’ needs and perspectives. They need to gather competences in order to become motivated citizens, communicative and knowledge builders. It is our belief that we can take advantage from the immersive virtual worlds’ resources to overcome this situation and therefore to transfer it to real life. In order to achieve this we need, at the first instance, to understand how social interactions occur in these environments (in particular at Second Life®), how they grow and how they are developed. What we present here is a preliminary sample of our intended research.
- Extending collaborative learning beyong the boundaries of the physical classroom through virtual environmentsPublication . Loureiro, Ana; Bettencourt da Cruz, Teresa Maria; Santos, AnaIn this paper we outline some of the potentialities and barriers of 3-D immersive virtual worlds when used in a learning context combined with other online tools. Classrooms can be extended from physical to virtual space in order to fulfill students’ needs and to facilitate a more collaborative learning style. Immersive learning allows us to learn in 1st person, allows us to have control over what we want to learn, how and when. The use of immersive 3-D virtual worlds allows students to participate in richer interactions at times that are more convenient to their work / study patterns, with no physical restrictions. Online web 2.0 tools, by being available at anytime and anywhere and user friendly, can enhance students’ collaboration and sharing, promote students’ socialization and improve classroom cohesion.
- Influência das relações da vida real na construção de conhecimento em mundos virtuais – Estudo preliminarPublication . Loureiro, Ana; Bettencourt da Cruz, Teresa MariaEsta comunicação pretende apresentar uma investigação que está a ser desenvolvida pelas autoras no âmbito de um programa doutoral, com o intuito de determinar formas de aperfeiçoar as situações de ensino‐aprendizagem no ensino superior, baseadas em experiências levadas a cabo em mundos virtuais imersivos. As autoras aperceberam‐se que, hoje em dia, os cursos de ensino superior nem sempre preenchem as necessidades da maioria dos estudantes. Eles pertencem a uma geração multitarefa e em rede, e o que recebem das estratégias de ensino‐aprendizagem de hoje em dia não os prepara para serem cidadãos críticos nem lhes fornece as competências necessárias para que sejam autónomos e construtores de conhecimento. Pensamos que poderemos retirar vantagem dos recursos disponíveis nos mundos virtuais imersivos para ultrapassar esta situação e transferir para a vida real. Para atingirmos este fim necessitamos, numa primeira instancia, de perceber como ocorrem as interacções sociais nestes ambientes (em particular em Second Life), como crescem e como se desenvolvem. O que apresentamos aqui é uma amostra preliminar do que pretendemos com a investigação. Lançaremos algumas questões, as mesmas que nos despertaram para a exploração deste assunto.