Virtual Immersive and 3D Learning Spaces

ISBN 10: 1616928255 / ISBN 13: 9781616928254

Published by Idea Group Publishing, 2010

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Print on Demand pp. 414.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Virtual Immersive and 3D Learning Spaces
• Publisher: Idea Group Publishing
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1616928255
• ISBN 13: 9781616928254
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Immersive learning has grown in popularity with the development of open-source immersive 3D learning spaces. Those in e-learning have been working to find ways to capitalize on immersive learning through simulations, digital kiosks, live virtual events, live interactivity, instructor-facilitated learning, AI-driven robots, and hyper-realistic experiences. Virtual Immersive and 3D Learning Spaces: Emerging Technologies helps push the conceptual and applied boundaries of virtual immersive learning. Virtual immersive spaces bring with them plenty of promise, of sensory information-rich learning experiences that will enable a much wider range of experiential learning and training—delivered to computer desktops, augmented reality spaces, digital installations, and mobile projective devices. This work explains how these spaces may be exploited for effective learning in terms of the technologies, pedagogical strategies, and directions.

About the Author

Shalin Hai-Jew works as an instructional designer at Kansas State University (K-State); she teaches for WashingtonOnline (WAOL). She has taught at the university and college levels for many years and was tenured but left tenure to pursue instructional design work. She taught in the People's Republic of China from 1988 - 1990 and 1992 - 1994, the latter two years with the United Nations Volunteers Programme of the UNDP. She has Bachelor's degrees in English and psychology, and a Master's degree in Creative Writing from the University of Washington (where she was a Hugh Paradise Scholar); she has an Ed.D. (2005) in Educational Leadership with a focus on public administration from Seattle University, where she was a Morford Scholar. She reviews for several publications-Educause Quarterly and MERLOT's Journal of Online Learning and Teaching. She was born in Huntsville, Alabama, in the US.