Practical Learning in Virtual Worlds: Confronting Literature with Health Educators

Autores/as

  • Kate Dagleish University of Hull
  • Mary Laurenson University of Hull

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4101/jvwr.v12i1.7314

Palabras clave:

Virtual world second Life, nursing and midwifery, healthcare education, clinical practice.

Resumen

In a radically changing educational world with rapid technological advances, educators need to adapt to new learning styles. This study investigates the use of Second Life (SL) within the Virtual World (VW) environment by healthcare educators as a method to enhance teaching and learning.


A case study design ascertained the views of healthcare educators to determine relationship variables of VW SL initiatives.


The findings reveal healthcare educators had limited expertise in using SL, but recognised its usefulness in bridging the theory/practice gap especially for nursing and midwifery training. The findings confirmed educators

Biografía del autor/a

  • Kate Dagleish, University of Hull
    Partnerships Admissions Administrator & PA
  • Mary Laurenson, University of Hull
    Senior Lecturer Faculty of Health Sciences

Descargas

Publicado

2019-02-06

Número

Vol. 12 Núm. 1 (2019): Pedagogy - Taking Stock and Looking Forward (Part 2)

Sección

Peer Reviewed Research Papers

Licencia

The JVWR is an academic journal. As such, it is dedicated to the open exchange of information. For this reason, JVWR is freely available to individuals and institutions. Copies of this journal or articles in this journal may be distributed for research or educational purposes only free of charge and without permission. However, the JVWR does not grant permission for use of any content in advertisements or advertising supplements or in any manner that would imply an endorsement of any product or service. All uses beyond research or educational purposes require the written permission of the JVWR. Authors who publish in the Journal of Virtual Worlds Research will release their articles under the Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivative Works 3.0 United States (cc-by-nd) license. This journal utilizes the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration. The publisher perpetually authorizes participants in the LOCKSS system to archive and restore our publication through the LOCKSS System for the benefit of all LOCKSS System participants. Specifically participating libraries may: