Virtual Worlds and Their Uses in Chemical Education

Winkelmann, Kurt

doi:10.1021/bk-2013-1142.ch007

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“…7,8 Virtual worldsvisually rich, three-dimensional, highly interactive online environmentsoffer another potential means for students to learn chemistry laboratory skills. 9 Virtual worlds have several positive features. They provide a realistic laboratory environment for students to conduct experiments on and off campus.…”

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“…Chemistry faculty wishing to offer online chemistry classes are challenged to design a laboratory component. − Many options are available. Students can purchase laboratory kits for experiments to be performed in the home, , attend a hybrid course with distance learning lectures and on-campus lab sessions, or they can perform computer-based lab simulations. , Virtual worldsvisually rich, three-dimensional, highly interactive online environmentsoffer another potential means for students to learn chemistry laboratory skills . Virtual worlds have several positive features.…”

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Development, Implementation, and Assessment of General Chemistry Lab Experiments Performed in the Virtual World of Second Life

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Virtual worlds are a potential medium for teaching college-level chemistry laboratory courses. To determine the feasibility of conducting chemistry experiments in such an environment, undergraduate students performed two experiments in the immersive virtual world of Second Life (SL) as part of their regular General Chemistry 2 laboratory course. The experiments’ development and implementation are presented with feedback from students and graduate teaching assistants. Students successfully completed the experiments and showed learning gains similar to students performing real world experiments, as shown by pre/postlab quizzes and a laboratory practicum. Student participants held positive views of their experience in the SL chemistry laboratory. Teaching assistants provided an important perspective about using the virtual world for laboratory instruction. Overall, results of this pilot study suggest that virtual worlds can be effective for teaching chemistry experiments. This is the first account of student learning and attitudes after performing college-level chemistry experiments in the immersive virtual world of SL.

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“…20−24 However, chemistry experiments were absent from Second Life until recently. 25 This article describes results of small-scale study of high school students' performance of a SL laboratory experiment, including an analysis of their grades and attitudes about performing virtual and hands-on experiments. This is believed to be the first report of such an activity in Second Life.…”

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A Study of High School Students’ Performance of a Chemistry Experiment within the Virtual World of Second Life

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Wong

2014

J. Chem. Educ.

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A small group of high school students performed a virtual laboratory experiment in Second Life that mimicked a real experiment in both its appearance and procedure. Lab report grades were equivalent to report grades for hands-on experiments, and the quality of students’ results was similar. Results of an attitudinal survey show that students expressed similarly favorable views of the hands-on and virtual experiments, and they found that report writing was equally challenging for both types of experiments. The virtual experiment required significantly less time to complete. The quality of the students’ results and their responses to the survey demonstrate that a laboratory exercise in Second Life may be a feasible alternative to an experiment in a real laboratory setting.

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“…Second Life (SL) is multi-user virtual environments (MUVEs) which is represented by avatar as user in online virtual environments (Winkelmann, 2013). SL uses a programming language which is said to be Linden Scripting Language (LSL) to design all of virtual 3D objects and its action.…”

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“…SL provides some features that interest designer and user. Some of the advantages and disadvantages of SL that can be used as a laboratory design platform are presented in Table 1 (Winkelmann, 2013;Wang & Burton, 2012;Inman et al, 2010;Brown & Sugar, 2009;Salt et al, 2008).…”

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Improving Higher Order Thinking Skills via Semi Second Life

Isnaini¹

2021

EUROPEAN J ED RES

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This study was conducted to determine the effectiveness of virtual laboratory based on semi second life (s-SL) on higher order thinking skills of general senior secondary school in chemistry learning process. The research design was adopted posttestonly design approach to a quasi-experimental. This study was conducted in the one of public general senior secondary school in 3T regions -Bangkalan City -one of the cities in East Java Province, Indonesia. There were 81 students in the grade 11 of natural science who involved in this study. The participants were divided into three groups, namely the students who did practical work by demonstration methods in chemistry real laboratory, the students who did practical work by experiment methods in virtual laboratory based on s-SL, and the students who did practical work by combination both of them (demonstration methods in chemistry real laboratory and experiment methods in virtual laboratory based on s-SL). The students in each group was tested by posttest of higher order thinking skills. The data was analysed with one-way ANOVA. The results of data analysis shows that there is a significance difference of each groups. Virtual laboratory based on s-SL has enough effect on the students' higher order thinking skills.

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Virtual Worlds and Their Uses in Chemical Education

Cited by 6 publications

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Development, Implementation, and Assessment of General Chemistry Lab Experiments Performed in the Virtual World of Second Life

Development, Implementation, and Assessment of General Chemistry Lab Experiments Performed in the Virtual World of Second Life

A Study of High School Students’ Performance of a Chemistry Experiment within the Virtual World of Second Life

Improving Higher Order Thinking Skills via Semi Second Life

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