RejuveNation Island: Attentional Restoration for Pre-Service Teachers in Second Life

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2013
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Farley, Helen
Murphy, Angela
Jones, Janice K.
Moodie, Donna
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This study seeks to evaluate the restorative impact of pre-service teachers’ online engagement in a simulated natural virtual world environment. Immersive natural environments provide a means of restoration for adults and may present benefits for pre-service teachers who are unfamiliar with the natural world. The use of restorative virtual environments could be extended to schools in urban areas in particular, allowing pupils and their teachers to undertake field trips, and to relax in a calming and restorative context.

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Farley H, Murphy A, Jones J (2013). RejuveNation Island: Attentional Restoration for Pre-Service Teachers in Second Life. Second Life: Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education Conference: 2013 – Beyond the Stage. 24/07/2013-27/07/2013.
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39 - Education::3904 - Specialist studies in education::390412 - Teacher and student wellbeing
46 - Information and computing sciences::4607 - Graphics, augmented reality and games::460708 - Virtual and mixed reality
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