What's in a question? The case of students' enactments in the<i>Second Life</i>virtual world

Ho, Caroline

doi:10.1080/17501229.2010.526791

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“…The spread of online worlds has led researchers and teachers to conduct experiments with various methods of investigation, mostly of them already being used for the analysis of similar educational situations offline (Bowers, Ragas, & Neely, 2009;Esteves, Fonseca, Morgado, & Martins, 2011;Ho, 2010;Ketelhut, Nelson, Clarke, & Dede, 2010;Mallan, Foth, Greenaway, & Young, 2010). Interest is often focused on the analysis of educational effectiveness, in terms of results achieved and effective teaching solutions (Bowers et al, 2009;de Freitas, Rebolledo-Mendez, Liarokapis, Magoulas, & Poulovassilis, 2010;Hansson, 2005;Ketelhut et al, 2010) thus, it often happens that the cultural background of the educational experiences, the social dynamics that can be observed within the context analyzed (Beaulieu, 2004;Boellstorff, 2009;Edirisingha, Nie, Pluciennik, & Young, 2009;Hudson-Smith, 2002Jones, 2006;Richardson & Swan, 2003) are likely to fade into the background, in favor of the attention to the effectiveness of the educational situation, the results obtained as demonstrated by specific evaluation activities.…”

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Ethnographic approach to second life in education: a focus on technological difficulties

Sponsiello

Arrufat

2015

Ethnography and Education

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This paper moves from the data collected during an ethnographic research conducted in Second Life, focused on the observation of different technological difficulties in educational experiences. The main research interests focused on the social dynamics of educational experiences in Second Life and the opportunity to develop a proper research methodology. The main goal is to evaluate the educational experience in such a particular context through the stories of participants, therefore the most appropriate methodology for researching the subject has been considered to be ethnography. As result of the research, it is observed that an appropriate use of the available tools and the adoption of innovative teaching strategies can promote the improvement of the educational experience in online worlds. This paper suggests interesting elements from the analysis of the data collected, which may help to adopt an innovative point of view on ethnographic research in an online world in education.

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