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An Experienced Austrian Educator's View on the 3-D Skills Implemented to Design and Integrate an Alien Mystery in OpenSim

An Experienced Austrian Educator's View on the 3-D Skills Implemented to Design and Integrate an Alien Mystery in OpenSim

Stella K. Hadjistassou, Judith Molka-Danielsen
Copyright: © 2016 |Volume: 6 |Issue: 4 |Pages: 19
ISSN: 2155-7098|EISSN: 2155-7101|EISBN13: 9781466692831|DOI: 10.4018/IJCALLT.2016100104
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Hadjistassou, Stella K., and Judith Molka-Danielsen. "An Experienced Austrian Educator's View on the 3-D Skills Implemented to Design and Integrate an Alien Mystery in OpenSim." IJCALLT vol.6, no.4 2016: pp.56-74. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJCALLT.2016100104

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Hadjistassou, S. K. & Molka-Danielsen, J. (2016). An Experienced Austrian Educator's View on the 3-D Skills Implemented to Design and Integrate an Alien Mystery in OpenSim. International Journal of Computer-Assisted Language Learning and Teaching (IJCALLT), 6(4), 56-74. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJCALLT.2016100104

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Hadjistassou, Stella K., and Judith Molka-Danielsen. "An Experienced Austrian Educator's View on the 3-D Skills Implemented to Design and Integrate an Alien Mystery in OpenSim," International Journal of Computer-Assisted Language Learning and Teaching (IJCALLT) 6, no.4: 56-74. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJCALLT.2016100104

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Abstract

With their playful game-oriented nature, virtual learning environments can form constructive ecosocial settings for enacting game-driven collaborative tasks that have real pedagogical, learning, and teaching implications. Even though multiple studies have been undertaken in virtual learning environments, there is a dearth of studies on the constellation of complex interrelated skills and knowledge that second or foreign language educators integrate in actual situated contexts to design and offer task-oriented game-driven learning activities. Building on Compton's (2009) framework, this study investigates the complex set of technological, pedagogical, and evaluation skills that an expert Austrian educator, Franziska integrated to design a multifaceted game-oriented plot in the virtual village of Chatterdale in OpenSim in order to engage thirteen-year-old Austrian and Norwegian high school students in oral interactions during three slightly different task-oriented quests to solve an alien mystery. Data analysis of an interview, reflective comments on a wiki, and follow-up emails indicate that the design and integration of an epistemic game in praxis forms a collaborative endeavor involving the integration of a set of complex and multifaceted sets of skills and knowledge. The study investigates the skills that emerged during two stages, the planning, preparation, and student training stage and integration stage. The findings of this study can be used to broaden the pedagogical discussion on the skills and knowledge that second or foreign language teachers need to acquire and apply to design successful playful task-driven learning quests in virtual learning environments.

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