Pedagogy and learning for sustainability in a virtual world scaffold
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Higher education institutions have an important contribution to make to learning for sustainability and education for sustainable development. A blended learning approach in a virtual world called Second Life was utilised in The Case for Sustainability, a second year core subject at James Cook University in Cairns Australia. The aim was to provide a rich contextual landscape to stimulate learner engagement with sustainability curricula. Data from student assessment tasks—a written review, an oral presentation, and ePortfolio submission, a voluntary online survey, tutorial observations, and conversations with students— were comparatively analysed with subject learning outcomes and desired graduate attributes. Findings confirm a high level of learner engagement with the topic, improved student engagement with the subject’s learning outcomes, and developed graduate attributes of information literacy, self-reliance and interpersonal understanding, and with the use of tools and technologies. This blended learning activity in a virtual world scaffold augmented undergraduate critical thinking and problem solving for real-world sustainability learning.
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Authentic Virtual World Education: Facilitating Cultural Engagement and Creativity
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978-981-10-6381-7
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15
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Springer
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Singapore
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10.1007/978-981-10-6382-4_2