Learning online with games, simulations, and virtual worlds: strategies for online instruction/
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| Language: | English |
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San Francisco, California:
Jossey-Bass,
c2009
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| Series: | Jossey-Bass guides to online teaching and learning (Jossey-Bass)
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Table of Contents:
- What are games, simulations, and virtual worlds really, and why should I care. Understanding highly interactive virtual environments
- Embracing interactivity
- Sims: a new model of content
- Highly interactive content from the students' and instructor's perspective
- Choosing and using a highly interactive virtual environment. Identifying the right approach for the right need
- Doing the prep work
- Integrating and piloting
- A brief example of a simulation deployment
- The processes of using a HIVE and the role of coaching
- Creating evaluation strategies
- Other considerations. Selling interactive environments internally : getting buy in from administrators, department heads, colleagues, parents and even students
- Epilogue: The new attraction of distance learning.