The Global Classroom Project: Learning a Second Language in a Virtual Environment

Brant Knutzen; David Kennedy

Electronic Journal of e-Learning Vol. 10, No. 1 (2012) pp. 90–106

This paper reports the progress of a pilot project exploring the integration of a collaborative virtual learning environment (Second Life) with the instruction of English courses at Lingnan University in Hong Kong. An educational partnership was...

Can Learning to Use Moodle Alter Teachers’ Approaches to Teaching?

Brant Knutzen; David M Kennedy

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2008 (Jun 30, 2008) pp. 3809–3818

This study examines how social engagement in an online learning environment (OLE) can transform teachers’ perceptions of their own pedagogical practices. Data was collected over a ten-month period, as a group of five teachers at an international...

Topics: Social Studies, Schools, Teachers

Designing the Self: The Transformation of the Relational Self-Concept through Social Encounters in a Virtual Immersive Environment

K Brant Knutzen; David M. Kennedy

Interactive Learning Environments Vol. 20, No. 3 (2012) pp. 271–292

This article describes the findings of a 3-month study on how social encounters mediated by an online Virtual Immersive Environment (VIE) impacted on the relational self-concept of adolescents. The study gathered data from two groups of students as...