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Educational Technology & Society
Development of a Virtual Second Life Curriculum Using Currere Model
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This is a study integrating Second Life (SL) and the currere approach to develop a virtual curriculum demonstration. The overarching purposes of this study were to understand the perceptions, self-reflection, self-understanding and educational growth of graduate students in education toward teaching and learning in a virtual interdisciplinary curriculum. Data was collected in two education graduate courses with a total of 31 participants in 2011 at a central Texas public university. The results revealed how SL exhibitions, based on the four-step currere approach, benefitted the participants. Using the exhibitions' target knowledge, individuals were able to develop a self-understanding, which propelled them toward self-mobilization and educational reconstruction.
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Working in Partnership: An authentic professional learning program to promote sustainable curriculum change.
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This paper describes a program that reframes professional development through a partnership model underpinned by an authentic professional learning approach and incorporating elements of design-based research and communities of practice. A secondary underpinning of the program is the development of key skills by the educational design and development group in both project management and evaluation of learning and teaching projects as well as effective online learning design. The outcome sought from the partnership model is to promote sustainable curriculum change through the development of staff capabilities. Using curriculum design projects as the catalyst, the partnership program integrates faculty and centrally based approaches to design solutions to authentic teaching and learning problems. The collaborative nature of the program encourages scholarly dialogues between academic and professional support staff enabling increased output in scholarship of learning and teaching.
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In the context of the UoH, a Higher Education Institution in England, this study investigates academic staff’s perceptions of Second Life (SL) as an educational tool within the Faculty of Health and Social Care (FHSC). By looking into lecturers’ perceptions of SL the work explores the benefits and challenges to academic staff in using SL in professional nursing and midwifery training and assesses their potential engagement of this as a teaching resource. The main aim was to identify the knowledge base of staff and whether the application of the SL method could be imbedded into the curriculum to enhance teaching and learning. The results showed that academic staff sometimes confuse SL with other so called web 2.0 technologies. However, they do recognise that SL can be a useful resource to bridge the gap between theory and practice in pre-registration nursing and midwifery training. Other key issues such as online identity, being able to deal with the unpredictable during an in-world class, and information and communication technologies (ICT) skills may also have an impact on academics’ perceptions and adoption of SL. This research brings to light the importance that student nurses and midwives initially need to be able to practise their clinical skills in a safe environment where they are not putting patients or themselves at risk and that although an immersive environment like SL could bridge this gap, implementing such a system is complex.
