Teaching Health Care in Virtual Space : Best Practices for Educators in Multi-User Virtual Environments /

Teaching Health Care in Virtual Space is the first "how-to" manual for health educators on the instructional use of three-dimensional, computer-generated virtual environments that can be inhabited simultaneously by many participants; commonly called "multi-user virtual learning enviro...

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Main Author: Codier, Estelle (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2016]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table of Contents:
  • Theoretical, philosophical, and pedagogical foundations for MUVE learning
  • What is a MUVE? What is MUVE learning?
  • The virtual world is your classroom : teaching in Second Life®
  • An introduction to general types of MUVE learning activities
  • Solo learning activities in content- or context-rich MUVEs : the MUVE as a learning crucible
  • Sample learning activities 1-3 : solo learning in content- or context-rich MUVEs
  • Pedagogical benefits of one-on-one MUVE learning activities
  • Sample learning activities 4-5: one-on-one MUVE learning activities
  • Pedagogical benefits of MUVE small group learning activities
  • Sample learning activities 6-8 : ethics, genetics, and disability small group activities
  • Sample learning activity 9 (complex small group MUVE learning activity) : clinical rounds
  • Sample learning activity 10 (complex small group MUVE learning activity) : building small group consensus skills
  • Instructor readiness for MUVE instruction
  • Assessment of students and other factors related to MUVE teaching success
  • Orientation to Second Life®
  • Designing a MUVE learning activity, part I : readiness for MUVE learning
  • Designing a MUVE learning activity, part II : implementing MUVE learning
  • Special topics
  • Problems and pitfalls of MUVE learning
  • Design and implementation of a MUVE emotional intelligence course.