Table of Contents

Experiential Learning in Virtual Worlds: Keeping it Real? Mark Childs Virtual Worlds Enhancing Student Learning in Higher Education Yvonne Masters and Sue Gregory Love It or Hate It: Students' Responses to the Experience of Virtual Worlds Mark Childs and Anna Peachey Problem-Based Learning in Virtual Worlds: Two Case Studies in User Interface Design Spyros Vosinakis, Panayiotis Koutsabasis, Panagiotis Zaharias and Marios Belk Lok'tar Ogar! Leadership in the World of Warcraft Melissa Johnson Farrar Higher Education Professional Development on Virtual Worlds through Machinima of SLOODLE (Linking Moodle with Second Life) Sue Gregory The Courtship Hypothesis and Second Life: Explaining Sexual Behaviour in a Virtual World Paul Jerry Experience as an Essential Aspect of Teaching and Learning in a Virtual World Tomas Bouda The Virtualopolis Archipelago: Creatively Interconnecting Work-Based Virtual Scenarios Karen Le Rossignol Virtual Hybridity: Multiracial Identity in Second Life Explored Dean Anthony Fabi Gui The Future of Virtual Worlds Mark Childs

About the Author

Mark Childs is a Senior Research Fellow for Elearning at Coventry University. Since 1997 he has worked on more than 30 projects involving technology-supported learning at Coventry and in previous posts at the Universities of Wolverhampton and Warwick. In 2010 he was awarded a PhD from the University of Warwick for his thesis on Learners' Experiences in Virtual Worlds. Greg Withnail has a background in architectural CAD, GIS and Web Design. As a Project Manager with Eygus Ltd he spent two years working full-time on their Second Life developments for the Open University. He is also an outspoken advocate of bringing established Web usability principles to Virtual Worlds.