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Chapter 16
Handbook of Research on Hybrid Learning Models: Advanced Tools, Technologies, and Applications
Making technology useful for different races
Published in Chapter:
A Mixed Reality Approach to Hybrid Learning in Mixed Culture Environments
Victor Callaghan (University of Essex, UK), Liping Shen (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China), Michael Gardner (University of Essex, UK), Ruimin Shen (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China), and Minjuan Wang (San Diego State University, USA)
Copyright: © 2010 |Pages: 24
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-380-7.ch016
Abstract
This chapter describes a conceptual framework that aims to augment existing eLearning systems with a 3D virtual classroom environment to provide geographically dispersed online learners with a sense of being together and part of a natural class. The virtual classroom model the authors present is based on a combination a ‘massively multi-user’ games technology system from Sun Microsystems Research Labs, a distance learning platform based at Shanghai Jiaotong University and a mixed reality environment developed at Essex University. Learning is, to some extent, a social activity as it involves relationships between people (between students, between students and teachers). Networked technology has a global reach bringing not just new opportunities but also complex multi-cultural and pedagogical issues. Thus, in this chapter the authors discuss both the technology and the socio-educational aspects of designing online Mixed Reality Hybrid Learning systems
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