ITALICS November 2009 - special issue on Virtual Worlds: play or education?
The third issue of ITALICS (the e-journal of the Higher Education Academy's Subject Centre for Information and Computer Sciences http://www.ics.heacademy.ac.uk/italics/index.htm) for 2009 will be a special issue on Second Life and other Virtual Worlds in use in higher education. The Guest Editors are Jane Chandler, Timothy Collinson, Jonathan Crellin, and Emma Duke-Williams from the University of Portsmouth.
Virtual Worlds: play or education? A call for case studies and research papers discussing integrating virtual worlds with social media, VLEs and traditional teaching methods.
"let them play..." Ted Castronova, Relive08
Can virtual worlds add an extra dimension to traditional learningware? We are looking for papers that discuss and illustrate the ways in which Virtual Worlds such as Second Life, World of Warcraft, Wonderland etc can be used to enhance and contribute to the fun of learning. We are also interested in submissions looking at how Virtual Worlds may extend the educational experience beyond learning by their inclusion within and alongside the learning environment aspects of socialising and playing.
Important Dates:
Deadline for submission of papers - 26th June 2009
Notification of outcome - 28th August 2009
Deadline for revised papers - 2nd October 2009
Papers should be submitted in electronic format and sent to [log in to unmask]
Further information can be found at: http://www.ics.heacademy.ac.uk/italics/paperscall.htm
Alison
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Alison McNab
ILS Co-ordinator
Higher Education Academy - Information and Computer Sciences
Email: [log in to unmask]
http://www.ics.heacademy.ac.uk/
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