Penny Wheeler

Penny Wheeler is a Lecturer in the Learning and Teaching Centre at Australian Catholic University, Canberra, where she works in academic development, specializing in learning design, English language development in the curriculum, and capacity building in online teaching and resource development. She has many years of experience in public communication and workplace training, having worked as a government publisher and manager for agricultural and environmental communication campaigns, and has interests in informal learning, computer-supported collaborative learning, and communication. She is a graduate of the University of Sydney, where she tutored in English literature, language, and linguistics, and of the University of Technology, Sydney, where she studied eLearning. She has been interested in learning and teaching in virtual worlds since the text-only MOOs (Multi-user-dungeon, Object Oriented) of the 1990s.

Publications

Cases on the Assessment of Scenario and Game-Based Virtual Worlds in Higher Education
Cases on the Assessment of Scenario and Game-Based Virtual Worlds in Higher Education
Shannon Kennedy-Clark, Kristina Everett, Penny Wheeler. © 2014. 333 pages.
The ever-growing creation of new internet technologies has led to a growing trend and use of scenario-based virtual environments and serious games in education. Along with these...
Using Discourse Analysis to Assess Student Problem-Solving in a Virtual World
Using Discourse Analysis to Assess Student Problem-Solving in a Virtual World
Shannon Kennedy-Clark, Penny Wheeler. © 2014. 43 pages.
Finding effective ways to measure student learning has been an enduring issue across the higher education sector. While much attention has been placed on the integration of...