Define virtual environments, immersive virtual environments, collaborative virtual environments and networked virtual environments.
Define transformed social interaction and explore its implications in cyber education.
Identify the challenges of networked individualism.
Define and discuss the Proteus Effect.
Explore how social awareness impacts learning in virtual worlds.
Discuss the possible implications of the changing role of the avatar and how this new role will also impact the role of the instructor.
Virtual environments may improve the way knowledge is transferred through digitally mediated communications. Collaborative and immersive virtual environments that use current and future technologies provide new delivery methods which frame concepts in real world scenarios. VEs have the natural propensity of transforming interactions. As the social dynamics within the VE change, the traditional learning experience evolves into a more engaging one.