The pixelated professor: Faculty in immersive virtual worlds

Online environments, particularly virtual worlds, can sometimes complicate issues of self expression. For example, the faculty member who loves punk rock has an opportunity, through hairstyle and attire choices in the virtual world, to share that part of herself with students. However, deciding to s...

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Autor principal:	Stephanie Blackmon
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Publicado:	Athabasca University Press 2015
Materias:	online learning pedagogy distance education higher education Special aspects of education LC8-6691
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:bd6d3eec1c59449a845ab195690f38052021-12-02T18:03:24ZThe pixelated professor: Faculty in immersive virtual worlds10.19173/irrodl.v16i1.17971492-3831https://doaj.org/article/bd6d3eec1c59449a845ab195690f38052015-01-01T00:00:00Zhttp://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/1797https://doaj.org/toc/1492-3831Online environments, particularly virtual worlds, can sometimes complicate issues of self expression. For example, the faculty member who loves punk rock has an opportunity, through hairstyle and attire choices in the virtual world, to share that part of herself with students. However, deciding to share that part of the self can depend on a number of factors: departmental guidelines, ideas of professionalism, privacy concerns, or the need for separation between the in-class self and the out-of-class self. In my study on faculty in virtual worlds, I examined faculty members’ perspectives on recreating and being themselves in immersive virtual environments.Stephanie BlackmonAthabasca University Pressarticleonline learningpedagogydistance educationhigher educationSpecial aspects of educationLC8-6691ENInternational Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, Vol 16, Iss 1 (2015)
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description	Online environments, particularly virtual worlds, can sometimes complicate issues of self expression. For example, the faculty member who loves punk rock has an opportunity, through hairstyle and attire choices in the virtual world, to share that part of herself with students. However, deciding to share that part of the self can depend on a number of factors: departmental guidelines, ideas of professionalism, privacy concerns, or the need for separation between the in-class self and the out-of-class self. In my study on faculty in virtual worlds, I examined faculty members’ perspectives on recreating and being themselves in immersive virtual environments.
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The pixelated professor: Faculty in immersive virtual worlds

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