There has been a recent explosion of interest from academics across a wide range of disciplines in the use of Multi-User Virtual Environments for education,driven by the success of platforms such as Internet Communica...There has been a recent explosion of interest from academics across a wide range of disciplines in the use of Multi-User Virtual Environments for education,driven by the success of platforms such as Internet Communication Technology learning skills in higher education.While digital virtual worlds are used in the 21st century learning,advances in the capabilities and the spread of technology have fed a recent boom in interest in massively multi-user 3D virtual worlds for entertainment,and this in turn has led to a surge of interest in their educational applications.As these platforms are used more often as environments for teaching and learning,there is increased need to integrate them with other institutional systems,Web-based Virtual Learning Environments(VLE)in particular.In this paper,we briefly review the use of virtual worlds for education,from informal learning to formal instruction,and consider what is required to turn a virtual world from a Multi-User Virtual Environment into a fully fledged 3D Virtual Learning Environment(VLE).In this we focus on the development of Moodle—a system which integrates the popular 3D virtual world of Second Life with the open-source Virtual Learning Environment.展开更多
E-mail-assisted language teaching is at the fore-front of the advances in educational tools in EFLteaching.But is it possible to create EFL communica-tive environment by E-mail and Internet in Chineseuniversities?Can ...E-mail-assisted language teaching is at the fore-front of the advances in educational tools in EFLteaching.But is it possible to create EFL communica-tive environment by E-mail and Internet in Chineseuniversities?Can we totally adopt CA by E-mail andInternet in Western countries into Chinese universi-ties?It is evident that Completely transferring it toChinese educational context is irrational and will ulti-mately fail.Thus,success depends on reconciling E-mail-assisted EFL teaching with traditional Chineseapproaches.This paper is designed to make perspec-tives on this reconciliation,and presents some disad-vantages of using E-mail and Internet in teaching.展开更多
文摘There has been a recent explosion of interest from academics across a wide range of disciplines in the use of Multi-User Virtual Environments for education,driven by the success of platforms such as Internet Communication Technology learning skills in higher education.While digital virtual worlds are used in the 21st century learning,advances in the capabilities and the spread of technology have fed a recent boom in interest in massively multi-user 3D virtual worlds for entertainment,and this in turn has led to a surge of interest in their educational applications.As these platforms are used more often as environments for teaching and learning,there is increased need to integrate them with other institutional systems,Web-based Virtual Learning Environments(VLE)in particular.In this paper,we briefly review the use of virtual worlds for education,from informal learning to formal instruction,and consider what is required to turn a virtual world from a Multi-User Virtual Environment into a fully fledged 3D Virtual Learning Environment(VLE).In this we focus on the development of Moodle—a system which integrates the popular 3D virtual world of Second Life with the open-source Virtual Learning Environment.
文摘E-mail-assisted language teaching is at the fore-front of the advances in educational tools in EFLteaching.But is it possible to create EFL communica-tive environment by E-mail and Internet in Chineseuniversities?Can we totally adopt CA by E-mail andInternet in Western countries into Chinese universi-ties?It is evident that Completely transferring it toChinese educational context is irrational and will ulti-mately fail.Thus,success depends on reconciling E-mail-assisted EFL teaching with traditional Chineseapproaches.This paper is designed to make perspec-tives on this reconciliation,and presents some disad-vantages of using E-mail and Internet in teaching.
