Adults Learning in a Virtual World

Sue Gregory

Adults Learning in a Virtual World

School of Education

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Learning theories have been around for more than a century, however, the theories of how adults learn are relatively new, having only been developed in the past 50 years. These theories are all based around learning in a face-to-face environment or online in digital environments using Web 2.0 (i.e., social computing) tools. This paper explores current and emerging theories of how adults learn in a virtual world. These theories are examined to propose a framework of how adults learn in a virtual world, i.e., a computer-generated world that is inhabited by individual avatars (persona) to interact with the environment and people (other avatars) as a learning space. At present, there does not appear to be a specific theory developed to explain how adults learn in virtual worlds. This paper will explore which adult learning theories, if any, underpin adult learning in a virtual world.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Australian Computers in Education Conference (ACEC 2012) Refereed Proceedings
Editors	Paul Newhouse, Jeremy Pagram
Place of Publication	Perth, Australia
Publisher	Educational Computing Association of Western Australia Inc (ECAWA) for the Australian Council for Computers in Education (ACCE)
Pages	1-9
ISBN (Print)	9780646586540
Publication status	Published - 31 Dec 2012
Event	ACEC 2012: Australian Computers in Education Conference - ITS Time: Information Technology in Schools Time - Perth, Australia Duration: 2 Oct 2012 → 5 Oct 2012

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Conference	ACEC 2012: Australian Computers in Education Conference - ITS Time: Information Technology in Schools Time
City	Perth, Australia
Period	2/10/12 → 5/10/12

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Higher Education
Educational Technology and Computing

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Gregory, S 2012, Adults Learning in a Virtual World. in P Newhouse & J Pagram (eds), Australian Computers in Education Conference (ACEC 2012) Refereed Proceedings. Educational Computing Association of Western Australia Inc (ECAWA) for the Australian Council for Computers in Education (ACCE), Perth, Australia, pp. 1-9, ACEC 2012: Australian Computers in Education Conference - ITS Time: Information Technology in Schools Time, Perth, Australia, 2/10/12. <https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/11794>

Adults Learning in a Virtual World. / Gregory, Sue.
Australian Computers in Education Conference (ACEC 2012) Refereed Proceedings. ed. / Paul Newhouse; Jeremy Pagram. Perth, Australia: Educational Computing Association of Western Australia Inc (ECAWA) for the Australian Council for Computers in Education (ACCE), 2012. p. 1-9.

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