This book offers a comprehensive examination of the theory, research, and practice of the
use of digital games in second and foreign language teaching and learning (L2TL). It …

Background: The literature on immersive virtual worlds and e-learning to date largely
indicates that technology has led the pedagogy. Although rationales for implementing e …

The ability for learners to interact online via their avatars in a 3-D simulation space means
that virtual worlds afford a host of educational opportunities not offered by other learning …

It is generally accepted that informative and timely feedback is important to a student's
learning experience within higher education. In the study of commercial digital games it has …

Interactive narratives are widely used to frame and contextualize education in games.
However, the specifics of how their designs aid the learning process and outcomes remains …

The paper attempts to bridge informal and formal learning by leveraging on affordance
structures associated with informal environments to help learners develop social, cognitive …

Executive summary The Blended Synchronous Learning Project sought to investigate how
rich-media technologies such as web conferencing, desktop video conferencing and virtual …

There is a “prevalence of computer-mediated communication (CMC) in education,” and a
concern for its negative psychosocial consequences and lack of effectiveness as an …

[ES] El mundo de la educación fue afectado hace varios años por la irrupción de forma
intensiva de la tecnología que logró que las modalidades de formación a distancia se …

3D virtual worlds (3D VWs) are considered one of the emerging learning spaces of the 21st
century; however, few empirical studies have investigated educational applications and …