Analog vs. Digital Instruction and Learning: Teaching Within First and Second Life Environments

Lester, Paul Martin; King, Cynthia M.

doi:10.1111/j.1083-6101.2009.01449.x

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“…If VW experience of trainees is low, a training program on VW navigation must be used to address this, or reactions and learning are likely to suffer, as implied by Proposition 2a. Some studies have no formal virtual world training (e.g., Lester & King, 2009;Mills & de Araújo, 1999). Although these studies found equal performance between VW and traditional conditions, VW navigational training may have enabled learners to utilize the virtual world more effectively, decreasing their cognitive load during training and enabling them to surpass the performance of the traditional trainees.…”

Section: Limited or Missing Vw Navigational Trainingmentioning

confidence: 98%

“…Unmeasured trainee characteristics (micro-organizational variables) and work environment variables (macro-organizational variables) may negatively impact the perceived effectiveness of VWs for training. Given that many virtual world studies utilize university student samples, the fact that many ignore work environment characteristics (e.g., Cobb, et al, 2009;Herold, 2009;Hudson & deGast-Kennedy, 2009;Lester & King, 2009;Mamo, et al, 2011;Mills & de Araújo, 1999;Mitchell et al, 2011;Schwaab, et al, 2011;Sutcliffe & Alrayes, 2012) may be unsurprising. However, even within student populations, the university, department or major a student belongs to may promote a culture in support or condemnation of technology in general or VWs in particular.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Learning and reaction outcome measures are common in training research in general, and measurement of behavior and transfer is much less common (Van Buren & Erskine, 2002). VW-based training is no exception to this trend with many studies lacking behavioral (e.g., Cobb, et al, 2009;Herold, 2009;Lester & King, 2009;Mamo, et al, 2011;Mills & de Araújo, 1999;Schwaab, et al, 2011;Sutcliffe & Alrayes, 2012) or transfer outcomes (e.g, Cobb, et al, 2009;Herold, 2009;Hudson & deGast-Kennedy, 2009;Lester & King, 2009;Mamo, et al, 2011;Mills & de Araújo, 1999;Schwaab, et al, 2011;Sutcliffe & Alrayes, 2012). The case could be made that virtual world researchers face many of the same obstacles of other training researchers and as result have many of the same criterion measurement problems.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Training Evaluation in Virtual Worlds: Development of a Model

Landers

Callan

2012

JVWR

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Many organizations have adopted virtual worlds (VWs) as a setting for training programs; however, research on appropriate evaluation of training in this new setting is incomplete. In this article, we address this gap by first exploring the unique issues relevant to evaluation faced by training designers working in VWs. At the macro-organizational level, the primary issue faced is an organizational culture unreceptive to or otherwise skeptical of VWs. At the micro-organizational level, two major issues are identified: individual trainees unreceptive to VWs and general lack of experience navigating VWs. All three of these challenges and their interrelationships may lead to poor reactions, learning, and transfer from VW-based training despite strong, pedagogically sound training design. Second, we survey the training evaluation research literature, identifying the most well-supported training evaluation models, discussing the suitability of each for evaluating VW-based training. Third, we propose a new integrative model based upon this literature, incorporating solutions to the unique issues faced in VWs with the most relevant portions of the models discussed earlier. Fourth, broad thematic implications of this model are identified and applied to prior VW literature. Finally, we provide specific recommendations to practitioners and researchers to evaluate their VW-based training fully.

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Training Evaluation in Virtual Worlds: Development of a Model

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Callan

2012

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“…The six studies that conducted field experiments controlled different aspects of real-world settings. These include customers of an electronic banking application (Rodrigues et al, 2016), self-tracking of physical activities in users' everyday environments (Sanchez-Valdes & Trivino, 2015), airport security screenings (Nunamaker et al, 2011), and students' performance, engagement, and presence in an online course (Barata et al, 2017;Franceschi et al, 2009;Lester & King, 2009).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The studies are of various contexts such as entertainment (e.g., Dolgov et al, 2014;Dunn & Guadagno, 2012;Goel et al, 2013;Martens et al, 2018), education (e.g., Ang et al, 2013;Franceschi et al, 2009;H. E. Kim et al, 2017;Lester & King, 2009;Sutcliffe & Alrayes, 2012), business (e.g., Hanus & Fox, 2015;Nowak et al, 2015), health (e.g., Spence et al, 2013), and social interaction (e.g., Jin, 2012;Kohonen-aho & Tiilikainen, 2017;Wu et al, 2015).…”

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Avatars and Embodied Agents in Experimental Information Systems Research: A Systematic Review and Conceptual Framework

Aljaroodi¹,

Adam²,

Chiong³

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Computerised graphical representations of human users and computer agents, known as avatars and embodied agents, have been extensively explored and investigated in Information Systems (IS) research and practice. Such digital representations can be employed in either 2D or 3D. In order to facilitate research on user and agent representations and their applications in IS, we conduct a systematic literature review and establish the current state of research on humans’ perceptions and behaviours when interacting with avatars and embodied agents. Our findings are based on an analysis of 90 articles published in top outlets in the IS field. This review identifies 1) different types of avatar and embodied agent-mediated interactions with users, 2) current application domains of such representations, 3) their dimensionality, 4) affected psychological constructs, and 5) practical considerations for the design of such digital representations. Finally, we discuss limitations of current research and, based on these, directions for future work.

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