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eLearning Engagement in a Transformative Social Learning Environment
This type of environmental space reflects distance between people in space and place yet remaining synchronously communicative in nature, sometimes with the additional perspective of differences in time engagement through asynchronous communication engagement.
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eLearning Environments as Engaging Invitations to Elementary Age Learners: Parental Experiences and Understandings
Allyson Ward Neal (Reaching Out, USA), Melissa A. Simons (Independent Researcher, USA), and Noran L. Moffett (Fayetteville State University, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-6956-6.ch004
Abstract
This discussion shares one working parent's experiences, as a parent aiding her daughter in an eLearning environment. In March 2019, the daughter's elementary school shut down due to COVID-19. Soon after, the schools began using Zoom and Schoology to help maintain a semblance of normalcy and a semblance of attempts towards continuing the learning process within a challenging cultural and sociological situation. What is shared is the parent's journey through which the parent struggled to sustain levels of normalcy in the home and the community. The focus of the discussion revolved around the school week, the school day, and school-based relationships, while also emphasizing the parent's voice through her perspective.
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Learning in Virtual Environments: What About Paradigms and Metamodels? An Illustration Through Enaction and Trinologic
That which has the characteristics of virtualization . Remark: When qualifying reality, which is already a virtualized approach to the outer world, this term indicates a reflective movement that objectifies elements of reality that already exist somewhere in the human mind.
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Evaluating Virtual Organisational Preparedness
The authors define virtual as meaning the quality of affecting something without actually being that something. The authors further define virtual as those activities within and external to an organisation, enabled by ICT rather than face to face. The nature of ICT lends credence to Webster’s definition, “being in essence or effect but on in fact.”
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Creating Cultural Analogues in Virtual Communities through Branding
Technologically generated forms in digital environments that are functionally equivalent to actual forms in natural environments.
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Virtual Platforms
Online or Internet-based software.
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Navigation at the Internet Front Line
A human mind or computer-mediated representation of reality.
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The Role of Spiritual Communication and Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Something created by computer technology and appearing to exist but not existing in the physical world.
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TACTivities: A Way to Promote Hands-On, Minds-On Learning in a Virtual Learning Environment
The simulation of something done in an online, computer-based manner instead of face-to-face (or in person). It is made to appear to exist via the use of software.
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Virtual Informatics Museum
Images of real places and objects.
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A Case Study of Authentic Assessment
Existing only in the informational sense, as a combinatoric property of matter. A chess position is virtual; the arrangement of the pieces has importance, not their physical properties.
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Why Should We Still Be Hopeful?: Aestheticization of Power and Resistance
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Philosophy of Web-Based Mediation
Something made by software to appear to be real from the point of view of the program or the user.
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Distance Learning and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Simulated, online learning environment as opposed to physical, proximate environments.
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Customer Experience in the Restaurant Industry: Use of Smart Technologies
It is something that has no place in reality, does not exist in reality, but is designed in the mind.
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A Multimodal Writing Framework to Promote Agency
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Evaluating Organisational Readiness for Virtual Collaboration
The authors define virtual as meaning the quality of affecting something without actually being that something. The authors further define virtual as those activities within and external to an organisation, enabled by ICT rather than face to face. The nature of ICT lends credence to Webster’s definition, “being in essence or effect but not in fact.”
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Interprofessional Education: Using Standardized Cases in Face-to-Face and Remote Learning Settings
Use of a group communication technology platform to bring together a group of facilitators and learners for an educational experience.
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Strategic Transformational Organizational Leadership
Individuals that are not co-located and communicate primarily through technology rather than face to face means.
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Quality Distance Learning Programs and Processes
Simulated; performing the functions of something that isn’t really there. For example, ‘virtual classroom space’ refers to a simulated, electronic classroom space created on a Web site rather than a physical space in a physical location.
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Fusion of Artisan and Virtual: Fashion's New World Opportunities
The world of online interface, that provides an opposing paradigm to the tangible face-to-face experience. Virtual embodies the digital world of World Wide Web, emails, social media and all cyber connections.
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Identifying New Virtual Competencies for the Digital Age: Essential Tools for Entry Level Workers
A situation in which communication can be exchanged without being face to face, generally involving advanced technology.
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Terminological Obfuscation in Online Research
A polysemous concept that collapses numerous meanings, each of which may not be intended in a particular research project. The term virtual has been used to characterize dispersed groups that interact either entirely online or in some hybrid on and offline arrangement. Scholars often use this term to characterize what happens online as “not real” and assume that what happens offline is automatically “real.” Yet real events, such as an e-mail to one’s boss, occur online. Further, many offline encounters are playful or deceptive.
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E-Learning in New Technologies
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Adapting to Virtual Third-Space Language Learning Futures
Not concrete. For example, virtual learning does not take place in a building, but instead is held over the Internet.
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Practical Considerations When Using Virtual Spaces for Learning and Collaboration, with Minimal Setup and Support
experiences, locations, and simulations that take place within 3-D interactive computer-represented environments
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Terminological Obfuscation in Online Research
A polysemous concept that collapses numerous meanings, each of which may not be intended in a particular research project. The term virtual has been used to characterize dispersed groups that interact either entirely online or in some hybrid on and offline arrangement. Scholars often use this term to characterize what happens online as “not real” and assume that what happens offline is automatically “real.” Yet real events, such as an e-mail to one’s boss, occur online. Further, many offline encounters are playful or deceptive.
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Learning Reflection and Creativity in Online Game Communities
Utilizing computer and network technology to facilitate and conduct the imaginative activities that comprise an integral part of human life.
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“Virtual Reality” Reconsidered
The role of consciousness in perpetuating itself; the subject as process; the function-function of consciousness in which the subject imagines and posits its own functioning. This appears as desire, always moving towards contact with the unattainable Real.
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Evolution of Malware in the Digital Transformation Age
Not physically existing as such but made by software to appear to do so.
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Successful Communication in Virtual Teams and the Role of the Virtual Team Leader
An environment simulated by electronic networks for reasons of economics, convenience, or performance.
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