Jacka, Lisa 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1389-8978 and Booth, Kate
(2019)
Students as Designers of Virtual World Learning Environments.
In:
Pre-Service and In-Service Teacher Education: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications.
IGI Publishing (IGI Global), pp. 1697-1712.
ISBN 9781522573050
Abstract
Virtual worlds provide pre-service teachers with the opportunity to study teaching and learning in an immersive 3D computer based environment. The pre-service teacher is able to become a designer of learning environments in ways that were previously impossible in a traditional bricks and mortar classroom. The learning environment that pre-service teachers create can, in turn, inform established educators about the usefulness of virtual worlds for education. In the School of Education at Southern Cross University, Australia, pre-service teachers have been given the opportunity to design and build virtual world learning environments. This chapter presents the story of one pre-service teacher and her tutor as they discuss the design of a virtual world learning environment for maths. This particular design project resulted in virtual worlds being integrated across a number of pre-service teacher courses and extended into the K-6 classroom. An overview of these other projects is also presented.
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