Manifestations of hard and soft technologies in immersive spaces

Jon Dron; Torsten Reiners; Sue Gregory

Manifestations of hard and soft technologies in immersive spaces

Jon Dron
, Torsten Reiners
, Sue Gregory

School of Education

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Immersive spaces are innately flexible. However, for learners, some constraints and scaffolding may often be valuable. This paper looks at immersive spaces as soft and hard technologies. Soft technologies are technologies enabling creative and flexible use, while hard technologies embed processes that limit creativity but provide efficiency and freedom from error. Technologies may be softened or hardened by assembly. For instance, if your Learning Management System (LMS) has no wiki, then it may be softened by adding one from outside the system. If your wiki has no assessment management system, then it may be hardened by using a LMS. For learning, the intrinsically soft nature of immersive spaces sometimes requires scaffolded hardening. This paper provides an example of an ongoing project that realizes these soft and hard technologies in an immersive virtual space and discusses the rich potential of such spaces for technology assembly.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education (E-Learn) 2011
Editors	Curtis Ho, Meng-Fen Grace Lin
Place of Publication	Chesapeake, United States of America
Publisher	Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE)
Pages	1895-1904
ISBN (Print)	1880094908
Publication status	Published - 2011
Event	E-Learn 2011: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education - Honolulu, United States of America Duration: 17 Oct 2011 → 21 Oct 2011

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Conference	E-Learn 2011: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education
City	Honolulu, United States of America
Period	17/10/11 → 21/10/11

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Educational Technology and Computing
Higher Education

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Dron, J., Reiners, T., & Gregory, S. (2011). Manifestations of hard and soft technologies in immersive spaces. In C. Ho, & M.-F. Grace Lin (Eds.), Proceedings of the World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education (E-Learn) 2011 (pp. 1895-1904). Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/17615

Dron, Jon ; Reiners, Torsten ; Gregory, Sue. / Manifestations of hard and soft technologies in immersive spaces. Proceedings of the World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education (E-Learn) 2011. editor / Curtis Ho ; Meng-Fen Grace Lin. Chesapeake, United States of America : Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE), 2011. pp. 1895-1904

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Dron, J, Reiners, T & Gregory, S 2011, Manifestations of hard and soft technologies in immersive spaces. in C Ho & M-F Grace Lin (eds), Proceedings of the World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education (E-Learn) 2011. Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE), Chesapeake, United States of America, pp. 1895-1904, E-Learn 2011: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education, Honolulu, United States of America, 17/10/11. <https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/17615>

Manifestations of hard and soft technologies in immersive spaces. / Dron, Jon; Reiners, Torsten; Gregory, Sue.
Proceedings of the World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education (E-Learn) 2011. ed. / Curtis Ho; Meng-Fen Grace Lin. Chesapeake, United States of America: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE), 2011. p. 1895-1904.

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