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Coming Down to Earth: Helping Teachers Use 3D Virtual Worlds in Across-Spaces Learning Situations

Minoz-Cristobal, Juan A.
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Prieto, Luis P.
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Asensio-Perez, Juan I.
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2015
Educational Technology & Society

Different approaches have explored how to provide seamless learning across multiple ICT-enabled physical and virtual spaces, including three-dimensional virtual worlds (3DVW). However, these approaches present limitations that may reduce their acceptance in authentic educational practice: The difficulties of authoring and sharing teacher-created designs across different 3DVW platforms, or the lack of integration of 3DVWs with existing technologies in the classroom ecosystem (e.g., widespread web-based learning platforms such as Moodle, or mobile augmented reality applications). Focusing on a specific kind of 3DVW (virtual globes, such as Google Earth, used like 3DVWs), we propose a system that enables teachers to deploy across-spaces learning situations, which can be authored with a plethora of existing learning design tools, that involve different common web-based learning platforms, mobile AR applications and multiple kinds of virtual globes. A prototype of the architecture has been developed to evaluate this novel approach. The mixed-methods evaluation performed comprised both a feature analysis and a study where a teacher deployed an authentic across-spaces learning situation including Google Earth used as a 3DVW. Such evaluation shows that the system enables teachers deploy learning situations over different technological ecosystems composed by physical and web spaces, as well as by 3DVWs.

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research article
Web of Science ID

WOS:000351443300003

Author(s)
Minoz-Cristobal, Juan A.
Prieto, Luis P.
Asensio-Perez, Juan I.
Martinez-Mones, Alejandra
Jorrin-Abellan, Ivan M.
Dimitriadis, Yannis
Date Issued

2015

Publisher

Ieee Computer Soc, Learning Technology Task Force

Published in
Educational Technology & Society
Volume

18

Issue

1

Start page

13

End page

26

Subjects

3D virtual worlds

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Virtual globes

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Google Earth

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Augmented reality

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Across-spaces learning

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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EPFL

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May 29, 2015
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