A Virtual World Environment for Group Work

Brown, Elaine; Hobbs, Mike; Gordon, Marie

doi:10.4018/jwltt.2008010101

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“…SL is currently the most mature and popular 3D MUVE being used in education (Dickey, ). While sharing common features with other 3D MUVEs, SL is also unique as being an open‐ended virtual world in which users are provided with tools and guidance to design, create and manipulate the in‐world environment (Brown, Hobbs and Gordon, ; Hew and Cheung, ; Ralph and Stahr, ). SL users can design and dress their avatars, own properties, construct buildings, build vehicles and socialize or do business with other users from around the world.…”

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Second Life in education: A review of publications from its launch to 2011

Wang

Burton

2012

Brit J Educational Tech

121

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The purpose of this review was to explore how Second Life (SL) has been discussed, investigated and applied in education from its launch to present. Two research questions guided the review: (1) what are the annual publication number and its percentage of empirical studies?; (2) what are the characteristics of the empirical studies regarding the academic levels, subject areas, pedagogical frameworks, evolution of research foci, research methods and sample sizes? A total of 107 papers from 68 refereed journals were reviewed. The findings of the review indicated that SL research has outgrown merely envisioning SL for educational purposes and switched to empirical explorations. Most of the empirical studies were conducted in college settings. The research had been most frequently carried out in teacher education, language education, business, hospitality and tourism and computer disciplines. The most recent research focus was to find out issues, problems and factors that might affect SL‐based learning as well as the relevant solutions. This study can contribute to the discussion on the instructional use of SL by providing researchers with a summary of previous attempted studies. Several recommendations for future research are provided based on the findings. Practitioner Notes Second Life (SL) is currently the most mature and popular virtual world being used in education. SL has been used by educators to teach and supplement classes. There are rich anecdotal stories, conference presentations and scholarly publications concerning what educators have been doing in SL. An overview of the development and evolution of SL‐related research in education from its launch to present. Answers to questions, such as “is the educational implementation of SL still in its infancy?,” “what were the subject areas and academic levels that have been explored by researchers?” and “has the research foci evolved throughout the years?” Assistance to researchers for identifying and locating areas for future explorations. There are studies, reports and stories that exemplify how SL can be used for language teaching, business, hospitality and tourism, computer studies and so on. Educators and researchers in K‐12 and adult education can pay more attention to using SL as an instructional tool. Educators and researchers in the fields such as chemistry and mathematic can explore more about the instructional use of SL.

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Second Life in education: A review of publications from its launch to 2011

Wang

Burton

2012

Brit J Educational Tech

121

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“…The met-expectations theory literature demonstrates the same relationship (Bhattacherjee, 2001;Brown, Hobbs, et al, 2008;McKinney et al, 2002;Oliver, 1981;Spreng et al, 1996). Moreover, because attitude and satisfaction have strong emotional components (Ajzen, 1991;Oliver, 1980), it logically follows that positive cognitive evaluations can at least partially create PEmo.…”

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Proposing the Affect-Trust Infusion Model (ATIM) to explain and predict the influence of high and low affect infusion on Web vendor trust

Lowry

Twyman

Pickard

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Information & Management

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Trust is just as essential to online business as it is to offline transactions but can be more difficult to achieve-especially for newer websites with unknown web vendors. Research on web-based trust development explains that web vendor trust can be created by both cognitive and affective (e.g., emotion-based) influences. But under what circumstances will emotion or cognition be more dominate in trust establishment? Theory-based answers to these questions can help online web vendors design better websites that account for unleveraged factors that will increase trust in the web vendor. To this end, we use the Affect Infusion Model and trust transference to propose the Affect-Trust Infusion Model (ATIM) that explains and predicts how and when cognition, through perceived website performance (PwP), and positive emotion (PEmo) each influence web vendor trust. ATIM explains the underlying causal mechanisms that determine the degree of affect infusion and the subsequent processing strategy that a user adopts when interacting with a new website. Under high-affect infusion, PEmo acts as a mediator between PwP and vendor trust; under low-affect infusion, PwP primarily impacts trust and PEmo is dis-intermediated. We review two distinct, rigorously validated experiments that empirically support ATIM. To further extend the contributions of ATIM, we demonstrate how use of specific contextual features-rooted in theory and that drive one's choice of affect infusion and cognitive processing-can be leveraged into a methodology that we propose to further enhance user-centered design (UCD). We further detail several exciting research opportunities that can leverage ATIM.

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“…Whereas Purvanova & Bono (2009), defined virtual teams as a project team with temporary lifespan and membership, spatially dispersed structures that are predominantly dependent on computer-mediated communication infrastructure. According to Hertel et al, (2005) work across distributed locations and time zones is not a new phenomenon because face-to-face or collocated teams also exhibit a high level of virtuality (Kirkman & Mathieu, 2005;Brown et al, 2008). In contrast, Johnson et al, (2001) have stated that a group of people or any team member who works more than fifty feet apart from other team members form virtual teams.…”

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Understanding the Dimensions of Virtual Teams

Gupta

Pathak

2017

International Journal of Web-Based Learning and Teaching Technologies

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Despite several efforts to bring about a clear phenomenon of virtual teams, there is still some confusion as to how virtual teams should be defined. It is probably because the characteristics of virtual teams and relationships among them have not been consistent. To address this gap, the present study explores the nature of virtual teams by analysing the perceptions of 23 professional students' pursuing full time two year Masters Programme in Business Administration, adopting the content analysis method. On the basis of multi-stage coding scheme and mutual consensus, five dimensions emerged. Results of the study, revealed that descriptors were more focused on structural, physical and technological dimensions as compared to task and social dimensions. Finally, the emerging categories were classified and arranged by using “Network View,” feature embedded in Atlas.ti7 to analyse their conceptual relationship. The study may provide inputs towards building a consistent and larger understanding of how virtual teams can be defined. Based on the findings of the study, further research implications are discussed.

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A Virtual World Environment for Group Work

Cited by 20 publications

References 16 publications

Second Life in education: A review of publications from its launch to 2011

Second Life in education: A review of publications from its launch to 2011

Proposing the Affect-Trust Infusion Model (ATIM) to explain and predict the influence of high and low affect infusion on Web vendor trust

Understanding the Dimensions of Virtual Teams

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