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What is Technical Affordances

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Designing, Deploying, and Evaluating Virtual and Augmented Reality in Education
The technological properties of an instructional environment or tool that enables certain kinds of learning to occur.
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Role-Play in Virtual Reality: A Teaching Training Design Case Using OpenSimulator
Zhaihuan Dai (Florida State University, USA), Fengfeng Ke (Florida State University, USA), Chih-Pu Dai (Florida State University, USA), Mariya Pachman (Florida State University, USA), and Xin Yuan (Florida State University, USA)
Copyright: © 2021 |Pages: 21
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-5043-4.ch007
Abstract
The affordances of computer-based virtual reality (VR) make it a natural fit for role-play. Although role-play has been commonly used in VR-based learning environments, the discussion of design details and guidelines is limited. In this chapter, the authors present a design case and aim to share their experiences of designing role-play in OpenSimulator-supported VR during a three-year design project for providing teaching training to graduate teaching assistants in STEM disciplines. The design of role-play bridges the technical and pedagogical affordances of VR. The authors discuss the design details from several aspects, including the formulation of role-play, types of role-play, and implementation. The authors also report the success and constraints in implementing role-play. With this design case, the authors intent on sharing the knowledge about the design and practice of VR-based role-play.
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