Authentic Virtual World Education

1. The Affordances of Virtual Worlds as Authentic, Culturally Diverse Learning Environments
Denise Wood, Sue Gregory

2. Pedagogy and Learning for Sustainability in a Virtual World Scaffold
Marcia Thorne, Colin Macgregor

3. Intercultural Competence and Virtual Worlds
Debbie Corder, Alice U-Mackey

4. Virtual Worlds as Restorative Environments
Janice K. Jones, Helen Farley, Angela Murphy

5. Self-guided Exploration of Virtual Learning Spaces
Torsten Reiners, Lincoln C. Wood, Marko Teräs, Hanna Teräs, Sue Gregory, Vanessa Chang, Michael Steurer, Timothy McDonald, Ali Fardinpour

6. Action-Based Learning Assessment in Virtual Training Environments
Ali Fardinpour, Torsten Reiners, Lincoln C. Wood

7. Engagement in Second Life: Language Anxiety and Motivation
Scott Grant, Hui Huang, Sarah Pasfield-Neofitou

8. Cognitive Engagement in Virtual Worlds Language Learning
Michael Henderson, Lyn Henderson, Scott Grant, Hui Huang

9. Anticipating Engagement: Pre-service Teachers’ Perceptions of Virtual Worlds
Lisa Jacka, Matthew Hill

10. Utilising Second Life Machinima-Facilitated Narratives to Support Cognitive and Imaginative Engagement Across an Undergraduate Curriculum
Des Butler

11. Decision-Making Supported by Virtual-World Systems Vis-à-Vis Enterprise Systems’ Uncertainty and Equivocality
Amit Rudra, Bjørn Jæger, Kristine Ludvigsen

12. Conclusion
Sue Gregory, Denise Wood

Keywords: Education, Technology and Digital Education, Higher Education, Learning & Instruction, Sociology of Education, Assessment, Testing and Evaluation