Suggested+Readings

=Suggested Readings for Further Learning=

The following readings are not required for the course, but learners interested in exploring these topics in more depth than we could accomplish during the class may wish to explore them for future reference.

Week 1 – Introduction to Second Life
Robbins-Bell, Sarah. “Higher Education as Virtual Conversation”. EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 43, no. 5 (September/October 2008). http://www.educause.edu/EDUCAUSE+Review/EDUCAUSEReviewMagazineVolume43/HigherEducationasVirtualConver/163162

Week 2 – Avatars and Identity in Virtual Worlds
N Ducheneaut, RJ Moore "Let me get my alt:" Digital identities in multiplayer games Position paper for the CSCW 2004 Workshop on Representation of Digital Identities; 2004 November 6; Chicago IL http://www2.parc.com/csl/members/nicolas/documents/CSCW2004-Digital_identity.pdf

Turkle, S.: Life on the screen: identity in the age of the Internet. Touchstone Books (1997). http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/33078560&referer=brief_results

Vander Valk, Frank. “Identity, power and representation in virtual environments.” Merlot Journal of Online Learning and Teaching 4.2 (2008). 14 May 2009 http://jolt.merlot.org/vol4no2/vandervalk0608.pdf

Yee, N. & Bailenson, J.N. (2007). “The Proteus Effect: The Effect of Transformed Self-Representation on Behavior.” Human Communication Research, 33, 271-290. http://nickyee.com/pubs/Yee%20&%20Bailenson%20-%20Proteus%20Effect%20%28in%20press%29.pdf

Week 3 – VWs: Workplace of the Future?
Driver, Erica and Driver S. (2008), The Immersive Internet Make Tactical Moves Today For Strategic Advantage Tomorrow, white paper. http://thinkbalm.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/thinkbalm-immersive-internet-report-nov-20084.pdf

Grimmelmann, James. (2009) Virtual World Feudalism, 118 Yale L.J. Pocket Part 126 (2009), http://thepocketpart.org/2009/01/19/grimmelmann.html

Miendlarzewska, Ewa Aurelia and Koslov S., (2009) Organizational Learning in a Networked World: Co-Research and Co-Design with Customers http://www.feweb.vu.nl/olkc2009/Papers/5AEwaMiendlarzewka.pdf

Week 5 - Higher Education in Second Life
Lesko, C. & Hollingsworth, Y. (2009). Developing a Second Life Academy: Bridging the Implementers' Learning Gap. In I. Gibson et al. (Eds.), Proceedings of Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2009 (pp. 2581-2588). Chesapeake, VA: AACE.

Jennings, Nancy, and Chris Collins. (2007) “Virtual or Virtually U: Educational Institutions in Second Life”. International Journal of Social Sciences, 2(3), 180-187. http://www.waset.org/ijss/v2/v2-3-28.pdf

Week 6 - Designing Immersive Learning Spaces: Pedagogy
Aldrich, Clark. (2009) Learning Online with Games, Simulations, and Virtual Worlds: Strategies for Online Instruction. Jossey-Bass: San Francisco. 134 pages. ISBN 978-0-470-43834-3

Collins, Chris. (2008) “Traditional Learning Spaces in Virtual Worlds”. Essay for the University of Cincinnati Second Life Learning Community. http://homepages.uc.edu/secondlife/index.php/Site/TraditionalLearningSpacesInVirtualWorlds

Smith, Michele and Zane L. Berge. (2009) “Social Learning Theory in Second Life”. Journal of Online Learning and Teaching, 5(2). June 2009. http://jolt.merlot.org/vol5no2/berge_0609.htm

Week 7 - Assessing Educational Content in Virtual Worlds
Livingstone, D., Kemp, J. (2008) Integrating Web-Based and 3D Learning Environments: Second Life Meets Moodle. UPGRADE. Vol. IX. Issue 3. June 2008. pp. 8-13. http://www.upgrade-cepis.org/issues/2008/3/up9-3-Livingstone.pdf

Mayrath, M., Sanchez, J., Traphagan, T., Heikes, J. & Trivedi, A. (2007). Using Second Life in an English course: Designing class activities to address learning objectives. In C. Montgomerie & J. Seale (Eds.), Proceedings of World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications 2007 (pp. 4219-4224). Chesapeake, VA: AACE.

Week 8 - Learning Communities & Professional Networking in Virtual Worlds
International Society for Technology in Education ISTE (Second Life Group) Website: http://www.iste.org/Content/NavigationMenu/Membership/Member_Networking/ISTE_Second_Life.htm

Metanomics (Second Life Group) Weekly broadcast in-world and on the web about education, policy, governance, and business in the metaverse. Website: http://www.metanomics.net/

Second Life Education Listserv (SLED) Website: https://lists.secondlife.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/educators

Virtual Worlds Education Roundtable (Second Life Group) Website: http://vwer.org/