Virtual worlds in Australian and New Zealand higher education: Remembering the past, Understanding the present and imagining the future

Sue Gregory; Brent Gregory; Torsten Reiners; Ali Fardinpour; Mathew Hillier; Mark J W Lee; Lisa Jacka; Des Butler; David Holloway; Scott Grant; Merle Hearns; Kim Flintoff; Jay Jay Jegathesan; David Ellis; Marcus McDonald; Frederick Stokes-Thompson; Belma Gaukrodger; Jason Zagami; Chris Campbell; Xiangyu Wang; Jamie Garcia Salinas; Swee Kin Loke; Sheila Scutter; Christine Newman; Ning Gu; Stefan Schutt; Helen Farley; Anton Bogdanovych; Tomas Trescak; Simeon Simoff; Caroline Steel; Penny Neuendorf; Matt Bower; Lindy Mc Keown Orwin; Tom Kerr; Ian Warren; Denise Wood; Charlynn Miller; Shane Mathews; Dale Linegar; Vicki Knox; Yvonne Masters; Ross D Brown; Grant Meredith; Clare Atkins; Angela Giovanangeli; Karen Le Rossignol; Andrew Cram; Eimear Muir-Cochrane; Arin Basu; Michael Jacobson; Ian Larson

Virtual worlds in Australian and New Zealand higher education: Remembering the past, Understanding the present and imagining the future

Sue Gregory, Brent Gregory, Torsten Reiners, Ali Fardinpour, Mathew Hillier, Mark J W Lee, Lisa Jacka, Des Butler, David Holloway, Scott Grant, Merle Hearns, Kim Flintoff, Jay Jay Jegathesan, David Ellis, Marcus McDonald, Frederick Stokes-Thompson, Belma Gaukrodger, Jason Zagami, Chris Campbell, Xiangyu WangJamie Garcia Salinas, Swee Kin Loke, Sheila Scutter, Christine Newman, Ning Gu, Stefan Schutt, Helen Farley, Anton Bogdanovych, Tomas Trescak, Simeon Simoff, Caroline Steel, Penny Neuendorf, Matt Bower, Lindy Mc Keown Orwin, Tom Kerr, Ian Warren, Denise Wood, Charlynn Miller, Shane Mathews, Dale Linegar, Vicki Knox, Yvonne Masters, Ross D Brown, Grant Meredith, Clare Atkins, Angela Giovanangeli, Karen Le Rossignol, Andrew Cram, Eimear Muir-Cochrane, Arin Basu, Michael Jacobson, Ian Larson

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Abstract

3D virtual reality, including the current generation of multi-user virtual worlds, has had a long history of use in education and training, and it experienced a surge of renewed interest with the advent of Second Life in 2003. What followed shortly after were several years marked by considerable hype around the use of virtual worlds for teaching, learning and research in higher education. For the moment, uptake of the technology seems to have plateaued, with academics either maintaining the status quo and continuing to use virtual worlds as they have previously done or choosing to opt out altogether. This paper presents a brief review of the use of virtual worlds in the Australian and New Zealand higher education sector in the past and reports on its use in the sector at the present time, based on input from members of the Australian and New Zealand Virtual Worlds Working Group. It then adopts a forward-looking perspective amid the current climate of uncertainty, musing on future directions and offering suggestions for potential new applications in light of recent technological developments and innovations in the area.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	30th Annual conference on Australian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education, ASCILITE 2013
Editors	H Carter, M Gosper, J Hedberg
Place of Publication	Sydney NSW Australia
Publisher	Macquarie University
Pages	312-324
Number of pages	13
ISBN (Electronic)	9781741384031
Publication status	Published - 2013
Event	Annual Conference of the Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education 2013 - Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia Duration: 1 Dec 2013 → 4 Dec 2013 Conference number: 30th http://www.ascilite.org/conferences/sydney13/ (Conference website) http://www.ascilite.org/conferences/sydney13/about/proceedings.pdf (Conference Proceedings)

Conference

Conference	Annual Conference of the Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education 2013
Abbreviated title	ASCILITE 2013
Country/Territory	Australia
City	Sydney
Period	1/12/13 → 4/12/13
Internet address	http://www.ascilite.org/conferences/sydney13/ (Conference website) http://www.ascilite.org/conferences/sydney13/about/proceedings.pdf (Conference Proceedings)

Keywords

3D multi-user virtual environments
Augmented reality
Gamification
Natural interfaces
Simulation
Virtual worlds

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Gregory, S., Gregory, B., Reiners, T., Fardinpour, A., Hillier, M., Lee, M. J. W., Jacka, L., Butler, D., Holloway, D., Grant, S., Hearns, M., Flintoff, K., Jegathesan, J. J., Ellis, D., McDonald, M., Stokes-Thompson, F., Gaukrodger, B., Zagami, J., Campbell, C., ... Larson, I. (2013). Virtual worlds in Australian and New Zealand higher education: Remembering the past, Understanding the present and imagining the future. In H. Carter, M. Gosper, & J. Hedberg (Eds.), 30th Annual conference on Australian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education, ASCILITE 2013 (pp. 312-324). Macquarie University.

Gregory, Sue ; Gregory, Brent ; Reiners, Torsten et al. / Virtual worlds in Australian and New Zealand higher education : Remembering the past, Understanding the present and imagining the future. 30th Annual conference on Australian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education, ASCILITE 2013. editor / H Carter ; M Gosper ; J Hedberg. Sydney NSW Australia : Macquarie University, 2013. pp. 312-324

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Virtual worlds in Australian and New Zealand higher education: Remembering the past, Understanding the present and imagining the future. / Gregory, Sue; Gregory, Brent; Reiners, Torsten et al.
30th Annual conference on Australian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education, ASCILITE 2013. ed. / H Carter; M Gosper; J Hedberg. Sydney NSW Australia: Macquarie University, 2013. p. 312-324.

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Gregory S, Gregory B, Reiners T, Fardinpour A, Hillier M, Lee MJW et al. Virtual worlds in Australian and New Zealand higher education: Remembering the past, Understanding the present and imagining the future. In Carter H, Gosper M, Hedberg J, editors, 30th Annual conference on Australian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education, ASCILITE 2013. Sydney NSW Australia: Macquarie University. 2013. p. 312-324

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