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Direct linkDowney, Steve – Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, 2012
Since the mid-1990s, however, the popularity, diversity, and application of virtual worlds have spread rapidly. As a result, existing taxonomies and topologies increasingly are becoming less effective at being able to classify and organize the growing diversification of content available in today's virtual worlds. This article presents the…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Classification, Definitions, Multimedia Materials
Downey, Steve – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2011
Today virtual world instruction faces many of the same educational challenges faced by Web-based instruction during its infancy. There is a lot of jargon and visions of the future being bandied about, but as Hirumi et al. note in the May/June and July/August 2010 issues of "TechTrends" "there little understanding of how to apply" pedagogical…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Video Games, Web Based Instruction, Computer Simulation
