Virtual world language learning: Difference between revisions

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* '''Expressing''': learners represent activities within a virtual world to the outside world, through blogs, podcasts, presentations and videos.

===How do people learnLearning in 3D worlds?===

*''The 7 Sensibilities of Virtual Worlds for Learning'' presentation by Karl Kapp and Tony O'Driscoll illustrates how a 3D environment makes learning fundamentally different.<ref>Kapp, Karl & O'Driscoll, Tony (2010) ''The 7 Sensibilities of Virtual Worlds for Learning'', Webinar presentation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3amL-BXZRk</ref>

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===Massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs)===

MMOGs (Massivelymassively Multiplayermultiplayer Onlineonline Gamesgames) are also used to support language learning, for example the World of Warcraft in School project.<ref>World of Warcraft in School: [http://wowinschool.pbworks.com/w/page/5268731/FrontPage World of Warcraft in School]</ref>

===Synthetic immersive environments (SIEs)===

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===Augmented reality language learning (ARLL)===

[[Augmented Realityreality]] (AR) is the combination of real-world and computer-generated data so that computer generated objects are blended into real time projection of real life activities. AR applications, such as the [[Layar]] and [[Wikitude]] programs for the [[Smartphone]] enable immersive and information-rich experiences in the real world and are therefore blurring the differences between real life and virtual worlds. This has important implications for m-Learning ([[Mobile Assisted Language Learning]]), but hard evidence on how AR is used in language learning and teaching is difficult to come by.<ref>Vickers H. (2009) "Augmented Reality Language Learning – virtual worlds meet m-learning", Avatar Languages Blog: http://www.avatarlanguages.com/blog/arll/</ref>

The main aim is to promote social integration among users located in the same physical space, so that multiple users may access to a shared space which is populated by virtual objects while remaining grounded in the real world. In other words, it means:

• *Communication

• *Locked view

• *Keep control

• *Security

==See also==

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*[[Computer-assisted language learning]]

*[[Distance education]]

*[[E-Learninglearning]]

*[[Flexible Learning]]

*[[Heutagogy]]

*[[Hybrid course]]

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*[[Web-based simulation]]

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==Resources==

* [https://immerselearning.com/new-white-paper-how-3d-virtual-environments-facilitate-language-learning/ How 3D Virtual Environments Facilitate Language Learning] by Karl Kapp

==References==

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==External links==

* [https://immerselearning.com/new-white-paper-how-3d-virtual-environments-facilitate-language-learning/ How 3D Virtual Environments Facilitate Language Learning] by Karl Kapp

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