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Social Presence in Virtual Worlds

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Social Presence in Virtual Worlds

Join us in a collaborative effort to explore and understand the effects of Social Presence on teaching and learning in desktop 3D virtual worlds.

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Traditional social presence theories (traditional as in classroom-based, face-to-face) and the few mediated social presence studies (videoconferencing, Blackboard...) have proven that social presence can increase student satisfaction and perceived learning outcomes (Gunawardena & Zittle, 1997; Richardson & Swan, 2003). But there has not been much done on social presence in learning events via desktop 3D immersive environments, such as SL. One recent and promising theory of mediated social presence is the Networked Minds Theory of Social Presence (Harms & Biocca, 2004).

Immediacy is closely related to the concept of social presence. In an environment such as SL in which the instructor and the students' communication is mediated via avatars, which immediacy behaviors support communication, attention and motivation, and promote students' collaboration? What real life immediacy behaviors transfer in SL? or how do they translate?

Let's use this space to talk and share ideas, research and practice as well as to brainstorm on enhancing learning experiences and outcomes with a better knowledge of the social presence affordances of SL.

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James Fullerton Comment by James Fullerton on December 7, 2008 at 5:53am
Greetings All! What an interesting collection of like minded people. As an educator in K-12 who is interested in using TSL in virtual and hybrid classes, I think I've found a home to share ideas.
Grinn Pidgeon Comment by Grinn Pidgeon on November 4, 2008 at 3:50pm
Good article in IJTLHE on "Presence Pedagogy": http://www.isetl.org/ijtlhe/index.cfm
Sabine Reljic / Willow Shenlin Comment by Sabine Reljic / Willow Shenlin on October 29, 2008 at 10:20am
Bonnie, yes, absolutely. We can have a rotating schedule so that all time zones can be accommodated. I"ll send a schedule poll soon.
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Bonnie Long Comment by Bonnie Long on October 28, 2008 at 11:55am
Hi Sabine,

Just wanted to let you know I'd love to come to the social presence meetings in SL, but the timing isn't great for those on GMT. (1 a.m.) I'd like to propose a change occasionslly to an earlier time? Thanks, Bonnie
Phelan Corrimal Comment by Phelan Corrimal on August 12, 2008 at 12:55pm
Hi Sabine - Thank you for the greeting the other day :-) I'm looking forward to some of the discussions here. Rockcliffe is also starting to host more forums in these broad topic areas so I'm hoping that maybe there is some collaborative opportunities here as well beyond the discussion group. I'm currently working towards a Doctorate through UOP Online examining leadership behaviours in the face of disruptive innovation and I'm specifically using SL as the environment of study. So hopefully some overlap here :-)
Sabine Reljic / Willow Shenlin Comment by Sabine Reljic / Willow Shenlin on June 12, 2008 at 10:56pm
I am currently working on my dissertation and the more I dig into this topic, the bigger it gets. So here is this space in which I hope that you will share, question and comment on each other's questions, comments and issues.
I believe that this group can learn, discover, and teach others how to be better 3D virtual world instructors!

I am looking forward to our discussions, here, on Social Presence in Virtual Worlds. Welcome.
 

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