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The Effects of Trust and its Relationship to Learning in the 3-D Virtual Learning Environment of Second Life |
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Awatif Hashbal Ali and Fahad Mazaed Alotaibi |
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Vol. 25 No. 11 pp. 161-182 |
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Abstract |
Virtual worlds come with a promise to transform the learning and teaching paradigm, making collaborative and immersive learning more accessible and tailored, depending on the needs of the students and teachers worldwide. Platforms such as SL provide essential tools for enhancing the virtual learning experience such as smartbots, imbedded NLP, SLoodle etc. However, in order to replace traditional classroom environments in a reliable manner for rendering effective teaching operations some essential investigations are still lacking in literature. In order to make a switch, one of the most important bottleneck is the ability of VWs to ensure real traditional classroom like trust in student-teacher interactions. In an attempt to make VWs more accessible and usable as a replacement, this research attempts at bridging the seemingly increasing gap in two worlds. Hence, established ways of investigations in both the research domains of virtual worlds and traditional pedagogy are brought closer to identify the requirements for VW platforms such as SL to act as a reliable replacement for traditional university classroom, ensuring trust and effectiveness. In a similar fashion, the tools and techniques available for integration in SL are analyzed which can act as a bridge. A trans-disciplinary approach is taken in which the identified requirements of a traditional classroom specifically in terms of trust in student teacher relationship, are transformed for an SL classroom using SL capabilities and other identified mechanisms such as AI, NLP, smartbots, virtual designs, possible authentication and security layers etc. Practical implications of identified requirements are tested as a prototype in SL to provide a one stop solution for all future educators. |
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Keywords |
Virtual World (VW), Secondlife (SL), Natuaral Langage Procesing (NLP, Artificial Intelligence (AL), Virtual Reality (VR) |
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