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

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

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

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

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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 ascilite Conference Proceedings
Editors	Helen Carter, John Hedberg, Maree Gosper
Place of Publication	Sydney, Australia
Publisher	Macquarie University
Pages	312-324
ISBN (Print)	9781741384031
Publication status	Published - 2013
Event	ASCILITE 2013: 30th Annual Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education International Conference - Sydney, Australia Duration: 1 Dec 2013 → 4 Dec 2013

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Conference	ASCILITE 2013: 30th Annual Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education International Conference
City	Sydney, Australia
Period	1/12/13 → 4/12/13

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Higher Education
Science, Technology and Engineering Curriculum and Pedagogy
Educational Technology and Computing

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Gregory, S., Gregory, B., Hearns, M., Flintoff, K., Jegathesan, J. J., Ellis, D., McDonald, M., Stokes-Thompson, F., Gaukrodger, B., Zagami, J., Campbell, C., Wang, X., Reiners, T., Garcia Salinas, J., Loke, S.-K., Suctter, S., Newman, C., Gu, N., Schutt, S., ... Grant, S. (2013). Virtual worlds in Australian and New Zealand higher education: Remembering the past, understanding the present and imagining the future. In H. Carter, J. Hedberg, & M. Gosper (Eds.), 30th ascilite Conference Proceedings (pp. 312-324). Macquarie University. http://www.ascilite.org/conferences/sydney13/program/papers/Gregory,%20Sue.pdf

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Gregory, S, Gregory, B, Hearns, M, Flintoff, K, Jegathesan, JJ, Ellis, D, McDonald, M, Stokes-Thompson, F, Gaukrodger, B, Zagami, J, Campbell, C, Wang, X, Reiners, T, Garcia Salinas, J, Loke, S-K, Suctter, S, Newman, C, Gu, N, Schutt, S, Farley, H, Bogdanovych, A, Trescak, T, Simoff, S, Fardinpour, A, Steel, C, Neuendorf, P, Bower, M, McKeown Orwin, L, Kerr, T, Warren, I, Wood, D, Miller, C, Mathews, S, Linegar, D, Hillier, M, Knox, V, Masters, Y, Brown, R, Meredith, G, Atkins, C, Giovanangeli, A, Le Rossignol, K, Cram, A, Muir-Cochrane, E, Basu, A, Lee, MJW, Jacobson, M, Larson, I, Jacka, L, Butler, D, Holloway, D & Grant, S 2013, Virtual worlds in Australian and New Zealand higher education: Remembering the past, understanding the present and imagining the future. in H Carter, J Hedberg & M Gosper (eds), 30th ascilite Conference Proceedings. Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, pp. 312-324, ASCILITE 2013: 30th Annual Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education International Conference, Sydney, Australia, 1/12/13. <http://www.ascilite.org/conferences/sydney13/program/papers/Gregory,%20Sue.pdf>

Virtual worlds in Australian and New Zealand higher education: Remembering the past, understanding the present and imagining the future. / Gregory, Sue; Gregory, Brent; Hearns, Merle et al.
30th ascilite Conference Proceedings. ed. / Helen Carter; John Hedberg; Maree Gosper. Sydney, Australia: Macquarie University, 2013. p. 312-324.

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