Journal Title
Title of Journal: Educ Inf Technol
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Abbravation: Education and Information Technologies
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Authors: Nikolaos Pellas
Publish Date: 2014/10/18
Volume: 21, Issue: 5, Pages: 1007-1032
Abstract
The contemporary era provides several challenges which extend from the reconstitution of an innovative knowledge domain and curricula to candidate learning platforms that support online course delivery methods Educators and scholars on these demands have recently started to rethink alternative ways for the assimilation of the experiential knowledge in threedimensional 3D technologically advanced environments like 3D multiuser virtual worlds In spite the widespread dissemination and proliferation of novel educational implications by utilizing 3D multiuser virtual worlds combined with the 2D interface of LMS Learning Management Systems and the assessment of the effectiveness based on the online course delivery method in a longterm usability is still absent from the international academic literature This study presents interoperability issues focused on the utilization of the virtual world Open Simulator Open Sim in conjunction with Sloodle Simulation Linked Object Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment as a free plugin module The evaluation of this online learning process according to an empirical research method became possible with the assistance of ninetyfive 95 students by two different academic sectors that participated in this project and measured the capabilities and instructional affordances of this platform The evaluation process was focused on four multidimensional parameters psychologicalpedagogical technicaloperational organizationalfinancial and sociocultural The study findings based on students’ experiences revealed that both platforms could be sufficiently connected as a unique platform which can increase the users’ learning abilities This “hybrid” platform can adequately convert the ordinary multiuser virtual world of Open Sim and Sloodle in a common “incubator” of knowledge for online courses at university level At the end the instructional affordances and implications for futuredriven directions are also discussed
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