Me, us and it: Insiders views of the complex technical, organisational and personal elements in using virtual worlds in education

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dc.contributor.authorGregory S
dc.contributor.authorGregory B
dc.contributor.authorWood D
dc.contributor.authorGrant S
dc.contributor.authorNikolic S
dc.contributor.authorHillier M
dc.contributor.authorHearns M
dc.contributor.authorJacka L
dc.contributor.authorMcDonald M
dc.contributor.authorReiners T
dc.contributor.authorLierse S
dc.contributor.authorJohn B
dc.contributor.authorSukunesan S
dc.contributor.authorRutherford E
dc.contributor.authorJegathesan JJ
dc.contributor.authorButler D
dc.contributor.authorIrwin P
dc.contributor.authorFarley, Helen
dc.date.accessioned2022-11-06T20:58:49Z
dc.date.available2022-11-06T20:58:49Z
dc.date.issued2019en
dc.date.updated2022-08-08T22:59:17Z
dc.description.abstractThe adoption and pedagogical use of technologies such as virtual worlds to support teaching and learning, and research in higher education involves a complex interplay of technical, organisational and personal factors. In this paper, eighteen educators and researchers provide an overview of how they perceive a virtual world can be used in education from the perspective of themselves as individuals 'me', their educational organisations and as members of the Australian and New Zealand Virtual Worlds Working Group (VWWG) community of practice 'us', as well as the complex technology that underpins this learning environment 'IT'. Drawing on Linstone's (1981, 1984) Technical, Organisational and Personal (TOP) multiple perspective concept as the framework for analysis, the authors discuss their perspectives of how the personal, organisational and technical aspects of teaching through the use of virtual worlds have impacted on their teaching and research in higher education. The potential of employing the TOP framework to inform future research into the use of technologies such as virtual worlds in teaching and learning is explored.en
dc.identifier.citationGregory S, Gregory B, Wood D, Grant S, Nikolic S, Hillier M, Hearns M, Jacka L, McDonald M, Reiners T, Lierse S, John B, Sukunesan S, Rutherford E, Jegathesan JJ, Butler D, Farley H, Irwin P (2019). Me, us and it: Insiders views of the complex technical, organisational and personal elements in using virtual worlds in education. ASCILITE 2017 - Conference Proceedings - 34th International Conference of Innovation, Practice and Research in the Use of Educational Technologies in Tertiary Education. 260-267.en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10092/104706
dc.language.isoenen
dc.rightsAll rights reserved unless otherwise stateden
dc.rights.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10092/17651en
dc.subjectvirtual worldsen
dc.subjectSecond Lifeen
dc.subjectOpenSimen
dc.subjecttechnicalen
dc.subjectorganisational and personal (TOP)en
dc.subject.anzsrcFields of Research::39 - Education::3903 - Education systems::390303 - Higher educationen
dc.subject.anzsrcFields of Research::46 - Information and computing sciences::4607 - Graphics, augmented reality and games::460708 - Virtual and mixed realityen
dc.titleMe, us and it: Insiders views of the complex technical, organisational and personal elements in using virtual worlds in educationen
dc.typeConference Contributions - Publisheden
uc.collegeFaculty of Law
uc.departmentFaculty of Law
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