<i>Immersed in Learning</i>: supporting creative practice in virtual worlds

Doyle, Denise

doi:10.1080/17439884.2010.494418

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“…3-4) in a 3D virtual world, in order to understand how this space could be used creatively by individuals and the group (using the practices of Art and Design education), to assist young people in exploring and acquiring specific skills to navigate their key life transitions. For example, our learning space supported creative practices and creative expression, ranging from creating sculpture through multiple changes of one's avatar appearance, to being able to modify the landscape, teleport, fly and use collaborative tools ( [17], [9] p. 12). It was therefore possible to transform the space into a sophisticated personalised environment, which was used as an informal educational setting for a variety of creative endeavours.…”

Section: The Significance Of Learning Spacesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Technology Enhanced Informal Learning, Interdisciplinarity, and Cultural Historical Activity Theory

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Lally²

2016

ICERI2016 Proceedings

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This paper explores the role of theory and interdisciplinarity in Technology Enhanced Informal Learning, and the research community. We consider Cultural Historical Activity Theory (CHAT) but we strongly feel that our argument has broader application to the use of theory as part of the intellectual 'self-defence toolkit' that researchers and practitioners in the critical TEL community need to consider if they are to 'resist' the crises arising from educational globalisation. Theory offers us the history, scope, power, and language, that we need to be reflexively aware of both our own interests and those of others who are actors in the settings in which we are working. The paper arose from our concern to provide evidence that our work in virtual research communities (in the Inter-Life Project) -to help young people pursue their own research agendas and find their research 'voices' -was actually effective in serving their interests as well as our own.Our research revealed the centrality of learning space, community support, and creative/visual artefact production in the sustainability of these communities. We illustrate the interactions across these realms through selected examples from our Inter-Life findings. We explore how an interdisciplinary approach in TEL can support the creative confluence of learning in science and the visual arts, serving diverse cultural communities of learners. Finally, we consider resistance to the large-scale industrialisation of TEL, and its ideologies, that seems to us to be a key issue in TEL research. For example, we are concerned by the potential for surveillance and control that is contained in the whole learning analytics movement in which so many TEL researchers are becoming involved.

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Section: The Significance Of Learning Spacesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Technology Enhanced Informal Learning, Interdisciplinarity, and Cultural Historical Activity Theory

Sclater¹,

Lally²

2016

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“…En los últimos años se han publicado numerosas experiencias educativas relacionadas con los mundos virtuales en diferentes áreas y disciplinas, como por ejemplo en salud (Jin, 2011), cirugía (Patel, Aggarwal, Cohen, Taylor & Darzi, 2013), microbiología (Spires, Rowe, Mott & Lester, 2011), bellas artes (Doyle, 2010), diseño y arquitectura (Thomassen & Rive, 2010), comunicación y aprendizaje de idiomas (Jauregi, Canto, de Graaff, Koenraad & Moonen, 2011), o el aprendizaje de competencias transversales (Cela, Esteve, Esteve & Gisbert, 2014). En un estudio publicado por Wang y Burton en 2012 se presenta la revisión de más de 100 artículos publicados en revistas científicas entre 2006 y 2011 sobre las aplicaciones educativas de estos entornos virtuales 3D, especialmente Second Life.…”

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La competencia digital docente: análisis de la autopercepción y evaluación del desempeño de los estudiantes universitarios de educación por medio de un entorno 3D

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“…Early innovators in the field of creative expression in virtual worlds (Moser & MacLeod, 1996) provided the intellectual basis and impetus for the development of a range of artistic practices that were previously ‘impossible’ in ‘real life’. There is now a burgeoning range of artistic activity (Doyle, 2010; Magruder, 2011) occurring in these virtual spaces, including music and other performance arts, experimental work on sound and immersive experience, and installations that metamorphose as the participants’ avatars move through them. For example, Doyle's ‘Kritical Works in SL’ project (Doyle, 2008) argues that the Second Life space itself is performative for both the artist and for the audience.…”

Section: Creative Practices In Virtual Worldsmentioning

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The Inter-Life project: researching the potential of art, design and virtual worlds as a vehicle for assisting young people with key life changes and transitions

Lally

Sclater

2013

British Journal of Guidance & Counselling

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Careers work in the twenty-first century faces a key challenge in terms of digital technologies: to evaluate their potential for careers work in challenging settings. Given the rapidity of developments, technologies require evaluation in research innovations and naturalistic settings. Virtual worlds offer potential for careers and guidance work, and the therapeutic domain. To illustrate this, we present examples in which young people explore their feelings and ideas, plans and difficulties, while preparing for film-making. During this they develop important life transition skills. We argue that the power of virtual worlds – to support emotional and cognitive engagement – could be utilised in practice settings. We conclude that they are serious candidates as digital tools in the careers and guidance domain.We need intermediate runaway objects which are less spectacular and more inviting… bringing together the big and the small, the impossible and the possible, the future-oriented activity level vision and the here and now consequential action. (Engeström, 2009, p. 305 and p. 328)

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Immersed in Learning: supporting creative practice in virtual worlds

Cited by 18 publications

References 3 publications

Technology Enhanced Informal Learning, Interdisciplinarity, and Cultural Historical Activity Theory

Technology Enhanced Informal Learning, Interdisciplinarity, and Cultural Historical Activity Theory

La competencia digital docente: análisis de la autopercepción y evaluación del desempeño de los estudiantes universitarios de educación por medio de un entorno 3D

The Inter-Life project: researching the potential of art, design and virtual worlds as a vehicle for assisting young people with key life changes and transitions

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