Abstract

Abstract: Higher education administrative commitments to virtual worlds validate these new conceptually different teaching and learning environments as viable options for the twenty-first century. This paper asserts that positive administrative support represents a conclusion that this initiative requires a validation of faculty needs in four major areas: vision; "voiced," financial and human resource support; access; and provision of time for reflection, conceptualization, technical building, teaching, evaluation and revision or reconceptualization. This paper proposes that a significant, sustainable administrative commitment to virtual worlds is based upon a shared administration-faculty vision of virtual worlds as authentic teaching and learning formats across disciplines and upon an understanding of the learning characteristics of students.

Citation

Angel, R. (2005). Gaining Administrative Support for Teaching and Learning in Virtual Worlds: An Analysis of Vision, Support, Access, and Time. In C. Crawford, R. Carlsen, I. Gibson, K. McFerrin, J. Price, R. Weber & D. Willis (Eds.), Proceedings of SITE 2005--Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference (pp. 1774-1777). Phoenix, AZ, USA: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). Retrieved August 6, 2024 from https://www.learntechlib.org/primary/p/19310/.

Keywords

• Administration
• Virtual Environments