AVATAR – The Course: Recommendations for Using 3D Virtual Environments for Teaching

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AVATAR – The Course: Recommendations for
Using 3D Virtual Environments for Teaching
Authors The AVATAR project developed a global course for teachers, which was delivered re-
motely over a period of four months. The course had nine modules, distributed via
Maja Pivec
e-learning and v-learning platforms. The course was created in English, however to
Information Design, FH
support the learning curve of multilingual and international groups, several modules
JOANNEUM, University
of Applied Sciences, Graz, were moderated in national groups. This communication details the rationale behind
Austria the course, documents two case studies of completed projects within a virtual world,
Maja.Pivec@fh-joanneum.at highlights the challenges and successes of the modules, and culminates with conclu-
sions and recommendations for running courses and lessons within an online 3D virtual
Cristina Stefanelli world.
Consorzio FOR.
COM. - Formazione
per la Comunicazione
Interuniversity Consortium,
Rome, Italy
1. Introduction
c.stefanelli@forcom.it Highlighted in the EUN report on “Games in Schools” (EUN, 2008) one of the main reasons
for Game-Based Learning (GBL) being under utilized as an education resource is the lack of
Inger-Marie F. Christensen
teacher/trainer skills in developing and utilizing games and GBL resources to assist them.
Department for Competence
Digital games, Virtual Worlds, and their appropriate use for education vary considerably. Tax-
Development, University of
Southern Denmark, Odense, onomies of commercial game types or genres and lists of recommended platforms and vir-
Denmark tual environments have been made available from past EC projects (Pivec, Koubek, & Dondi,
imc@sdu.dk 2004; Pivec, 2008), but teachers and trainers cannot be expected to know how to integrate
these virtual environments into their lessons to achieve the desired learning outcomes. The
Jutta Pauschenwein digital technology can take a considerable amount of time to learn, often with the students
ZML – Innovative Learning knowing more about it than the teacher. Part of the process of choosing and utilizing a digital
Scenarios, FH JOANNEUM,
game for learning or learning within a virtual world, includes the identification and consid-
University of Applied
Sciences, Graz, Austria eration of constraints in the learning setting, computer skills of both students and teachers,
and the knowledge of how the desired learning outcomes would be realized. Other issues
Jutta.Pauschenwein@fh-
joanneum.at include technical requirements, licensing policies, sustainability, and more.

Some commercial educational games such as “Chemicus”, “Physikus”, and “Informaticus”, by
Heureka-Klett (2002), a German software engineering company, have the quality of recrea-
Tags
tional games and include defined learning outcomes. These games employ an interface very
virtual learning similar to the popular commercial adventure game “Myst” from the game publisher UbiSoft
environments, teacher (2007), and provide an interactive storyline that transports the player into a virtual world
training, online course of fantasy and creates an immersive environment. Reese (2007) suggests that these virtual
development, case study worlds have the potential to create a player immersion (Kearney & Pivec, 2007) and cites the
concept of flow from Czikszentmihalyi (1990). Reese advocates that virtual worlds should
be used as an alternate space for learning because of this immersive quality. Calleja (2007)
agrees with Reese and promotes a game experience model to incorporate the concepts of
both immersion and presence, to further the understanding of social significance and per-
sonal values of digital environments.

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Game-Based Learning can successfully supplement traditional in education by providing teachers with relatively new meth-
teaching, by providing a motivational environment successfully odological and pedagogical tools, and was offered to teachers
aimed at the appropriate target audience. Sorensen and Meyer in secondary schools in Austria, Bulgaria, Denmark, Italy, Spain
(2007) reviewed a Game-Based language course (English as a and the United Kingdom. The course included approximately
foreign language) introduced into primary schools in 2006 in 100 hours of learning activities broken down into group activi-
Denmark. The online world of “Mingoville” (2009) contains 10 ties, individual study, planning and carrying out the project work
missions in which players complete activities focused around with students.
vocabulary, spelling, and word recognition. Aimed at children
aged 5 to 14 years, the product is written in Adobe Flash to be 2. AVATAR - The Course
easily accessed via a web browser and has now been translated
into 31 languages. Mayer and Bekebrede (2006) successfully The course was delivered through both an E-Learning and a V-
implemented Game-Based Learning using simulations. Their Learning platform comprising a mix of tutorials, individual and
games titled “Containers Adrift”, the planning and design of group activities, and practical tasks. Second Life was chosen for
an inland container terminal, “Ventum On Line”, the simulated the virtual world and subsequently used for the course delivery
management of a wind farm, and “SIM MV2”, the planning of to the participating teachers. Groups of teachers from each of
infrastructure for a 2nd port in Rotterdam, are all successfully the participating countries were moderated by national mod-
utilized at the Delft University of Technology. Burmester, Bur- erators (virtual world experts), who communicated with them
mester, and Reiners (2008) also created simulations of Con- in their native languages. Participants also partook in transna-
tainer Terminals using the virtual environment of Second Life. tional activities and reflection in English.
They suggest that the blended learning approach taken by the The overall learning objectives of the AVATAR course were for
University of Hamburg allows for a richer environment for the the participants to:
students and a safer one than the real alternative when teach-
ing terminal logistics and management. They conclude that al- • develop skills and confidence in using various social inter-
though the virtual world of Second Life suits their purpose at net resources as well as massively multi-user online worlds
the present, they have structured their resources as to be able such as Second Life
to port them to other virtual worlds or digital game environ- • develop a deeper understanding of these environments
ments in the future. and their uses with regard to learning scenarios

As suggested in all of the above examples, digital environments • gain knowledge of teaching methods, best practices and
and virtual worlds are often used to provide the motivation nec- educational design usable in virtual worlds
essary to learn, be it as drill and practice for homework, or as a • identify and reflect upon the efficacy of the outcomes of
safe experiential environment to supplement the structured les- different learning activities carried out in-world
son. Clark (2004) maintains that commercial recreational game • design strategies, activities and resources for learning dif-
designers are successful because they focus only on engaging ferent subjects in virtual worlds
the player and making the game fun to play. He states that it • integrate virtual worlds as an innovative means in their
is the design of the interactivity that provides the motivation daily teaching
necessary to invoke the repeated and persistent re-engagement
• experience virtual worlds with their students
by the player. This can be achieved at an emotional level or an
intellectual level, but for the player to learn in the virtual envi- • evaluate the educational use of virtual worlds in their class-
ronment, Clark argues that the design must include action and rooms
consequence and learning can then be achieved through reflec- To achieve these objectives the course was offered in nine Mod-
tion, especially when a moderated debriefing is utilized. ules with activities as follows:

The EUN report on Games in Schools (EUN, 2008) also suggests 1. Introduction Module
that the lack of ICT use in teaching is a predominant issue in Access to the E-learning platform and course overview
secondary schools throughout Europe. The AVATAR course dis-
2. E-Learning Platform Introduction Module
cussed in this paper aimed at enhancing the level of ICT use

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Socialisation and getting to know the functions of the with your fellow Danish students. Another important goal of
E-learning platform the project was to enable the students to pay virtual visits to
3. V-Learning Platform Introduction Module sights in the UK and the US, so as to intrigue them and create a
desire to see the places in real life. A secondary purpose of the
Accessing Second Life, acquiring basic skills, accessing
project was to pose creative tasks to the students that would
Second Life support resources
allow them to work with digital audio and video as part of the
4. V-Learning Intermediate Module
subject “junior computer driver’s license”.
Search, Groups and Communication
During the first week of the project, the students were given an
5. V-learning Advanced Module
introductory course to familiarize them with the relevant func-
Basic Object Creation
tions of Second Life and to give them time to create an ava-
6. V-Learning Advanced Module tar. The students were given the assignment to visit different
Advanced Object Creation places in Second Life all relating to Berlin and to create a photo
7. V-Learning Educational Design Module story with music and text. This exercise was linked to an actual
study trip to the city of Berlin. The second and third weeks of
8. Ongoing V-Learning Seminar
the project were devoted to the Robin Hood Quest which is
9. V-Learning Project Work
available in Second Life at the British Council Isle. The students
The course spanned four months, and covered educational de- worked in groups to solve the riddles and tasks in the quest.
sign of virtual world teaching, the management and construc- They had to use English when communicating with each oth-
tion of virtual objects and learning environments, and examples er and when seeking help from the guides (their teachers and
of learning activities in virtual worlds. During the course, the teachers from Austria and Italy who were also engaged in the
teachers developed project work and use it directly in their AVATAR course) in Second Life. Again the students were asked to
classroom with their students. The project work incorporated a create a photo story with English texts and with music. It turned
practical application of knowledge and skills gained during the out that only by collaborating could the students solve the tasks
course, with regards to the creation of a virtual-world learning of the quest, which made the project very successful.
environment and learning activities for a specific subject.
Some students felt that the Robin Hood Quest was very diffi-
cult, and they had much help from their teachers and fellow
3. Case Study - Learning English as a students. However, the students quickly got a good grasp of
foreign language in Second Life how to navigate within the Virtual World and how to change
their appearance etc., due to their prior knowledge of Virtual
The first case study included 30 students aged 16 to 17 years,
world games such as the World of Warcraft. This prior knowl-
and was carried out in weeks 12 to 14, Spring 2011. The 30 stu-
edge of online computer games also meant that some students
dents were spread across three 10th grade classes. The 10th
behaved offensively towards other avatars. However, they were
grade is optional, and therefore many 10th grade schools have
soon introduced to netiquette to amend their behavior.
creative and practical subjects that allow students to get a feel
of different trades and professions. With regards to the goal of learning English as a second lan-
guage, the students spent time communicating in English and
The purpose of this project was to work with English as a for-
were able to understand the English language instructions that
eign language within the virtual world of Second Life. One of
they received. They thus had a lot of practical training and ap-
the goals of learning English as a second language is to give
peared to have fun in the process. However, it was mostly the
students the opportunity to speak the language. The teachers
reading, understanding and writing (chatting) skills that the stu-
behind the project felt that a virtual world would be the perfect
dents were practicing and less their oral English. When com-
setting for language teaching because the students could “hide”
municating with each other, the students used Danish probably
behind their avatar and thus overcome some of the embarrass-
as a result of the very complex tasks they were facing. As a side
ment that might be involved. Also, it was believed that Second
effect of the project, some students formed a band and chatted
Life would provide more realistic communication situations
with avatars from other countries.
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Challenges and Reflections from this project: curricular hours. The goal is of the project work was to create
a Bazaar within Second Life containing 3D objects created by
The Robin Hood Quest appeared to be an ideal task for lan- students.
guage teaching. However, it turned out to be too complex a task
to solve the riddles involved. Using existing resources in Second This project focused on competences rather than disciplinary
Life is not always easy and hence it is recommendable to con- contents. It aimed at enable the students to gain:
tact the institution behind the resources you wish to use, and
• Knowledge (Italian, English, Computer, Civil Law);
get the necessary documentation and information before using
the resources with your students. • Skills (how to use the computer, learn new ways of using
the computer, create things using computers, create things
Also, the students would have gained more if they had worked based on their own ideas, use technology to contribute to
in groups across the countries in the AVATAR project. This the surrounding community and to collaborate);
proved not to be possible within the timeframe. It would also • Attitudes (the fields of study of students are Business, Fi-
have been ideal to carry out the project in the autumn i.e. in the nance and Software design: some of them have purchased
beginning of the semester. an ECDL Skill card);
Finally, mastering Second Life was not as easy as hoped. The • Competences (communication, problem-solving, coopera-
teachers pointed to a steep learning curve for themselves and tive-learning)
those students without online game experience. It is not a plug
The outcomes and purpose of this practical experiment were
and play educational product.
related to Europe 2020 strategy, Digital Agenda (IP/10/225) and
Links and further information from this case study are as fol- to the eight key competences for lifelong learning (Recommen-
lows: dation 2006/962/EC of the European Parliament and Council).

• The Robin Hood Quest The purpose of the project work, in terms of the learning out-
• The aim of the quest is to free Maid Marion. In order to comes for pupils, revolved around 3 core themes:
free her, a code is needed. The code is obtained by solving Core theme COMMUNICATION:
different tasks and solving a crossword puzzle.
- decode verbal and non verbal messages efficiently
• Sherwood Forest of the British Council Isle: http://robin-
- use ICT for communicating
hoodquest.wetpaint.com/
Core theme COOPERATIVE LEARNING:
• British Council Intro film: http://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=Sty91tJZyqA - compare with peers representation of a setting or a spe-
cific theme
The student films are available here: - interact using an efficient role as to achieve a common
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVx_ZH5zNfg goal

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jxi4qZDUsJA Core theme PROBLEM SOLVING

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVpKjCXzXXc - define goals and expected outcome of a problem

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocCc1ksCMpU - analyze the context, evaluate available strength point and
detect challenges
4. Case Study - What & how can I do? - define strategies, role of involved actors, and deadline for
the solution of a problem
This project work was designed and carried out by Claudia Mal-
ta teacher of Italian Literature and History with her students of - recognize and valorize successful results, appreciate and
class 4ª B Mercurio, Technical School “Giuseppe Ginanni”, Ra- analyzing even smalls improvements.
venna, Italy. The project work involved 17 students aged 17 to
The project work itself consisted of two phases that had been
18 years during the period April 1 to May 7 of 2011. The length
preceded by an internal communication targeting students,
of the project in total was 24 hours, 8 curricular and 16 extra-
teachers (colleagues) and the technical staff of the school. This

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communication was aimed at motivate students, inform col- o create and present, in a small Bazaar, the 3d objects
league and technicians of the educational potentials of virtual (created by students)
worlds, and inform participants of the AVATAR project and of
During this phase a number of frontal lessons and dialogues
the idea for the project work.
took place in-world in the open-air classroom of the AVATAR
project’s estate. Next was the operative part of the project (fo-
Phase one: preparatory phase cused on problem-solving) with the aim of acquiring basic skills
The length of this phase was 8 curricular hours. Main tasks of to interact with objects in SL and to realize “interesting” 3d ob-
this phase were: ject, realistic in terms of dimensions, with an eye to aesthetic
and using scripts. Some students were creative and others had
• Creation of the Second Life accounts for the students. been determinate and persistent facing some personal chal-
• Creation of the students’ Avatars. lenges (e.g. how can I put an umbrella in the right direction in
the hand of an avatar?)
Phase one consisted of an introduction to virtual worlds and
their educational possibilities. Students’ virtual existence as Av-
atars in Second Life was opened with basic instruction on how
Challenges and Reflections from this project:
to change appearance, how to move around and communicate. Many of the colleagues at school were interested in the progress
The students were very positive regarding their involvement in of the project work: the ICT responsible, the board of teachers
the project even though they did not have previous experience and even the Didactic Manager entered SL to see the Bazaar.
in SL. The main characteristic of this phase was that all students The students became the “Avatar group” of the school and
had “a willingness to participate”. Spending time on the virtual some pictures of their in-world activities were placed on the
island, students visited all the buildings of the estate and start- bulletin-board in the hall of the school. A wider report was also
ed building their own objects. published in the school institutional website. The project work
is still open. Students do not want to leave their avatars and
In order to facilitate the student’s stay in SL, the teacher defined
there are plans for a “second half” i.e. continuum of this project,
some rules (in addition to the Conduct by users of Second Life
that will be carried out next school year. The teacher is consider-
by Linden Labs). Due to the total number of pupil’s aged 16-
ing using this experience during the next year for the thesis that
18, the confined setting of the island was the ideal place for
students will design for their final exams.
these activities. Students started to be creative, learning digital
competences and shaping 3d objects by using and modifying The work in SL with the students has never been a “cold” and
textures and scripts available in the Resource Centre. impersonal didactic unit with students drawn along the module.
The project work was very constructive and collaborative. The
Phase two: laboratory phase teachers believe that the project contributed to built skills, in
particular in terms of problem solving and pointed towards per-
The length of phase two was 16 extra-curricular hours. Phase sonal attitudes and giving value to them.
two was carried out at school on Fridays from 16:00 to 17:00
(after the normal lessons) and Saturdays (students do not have “I believe that a similar experience may be transferred to many
lessons on Saturday) at school and/or at home. different contexts, using guided tours and more activities in-
stead of scripts, if students less skilled with ICTs are involved.
The main steps of phase two were:
A real problem may occur in many schools: connection to the in-
• Lessons (in Italian) on Regulatory text and instructional/ ternet and technical capacity of computer at school. The collab-
procedural text. oration of the technical staff of the school and their involvement
• Group activities for the students, on texts were to: since the earliest stage of the activities is highly recommended
o read, summarize, analyse (regulatory texts); for a successful result of the project works.
o read, analyse, use as resources to produce things (in- I just discovered the potential of teaching in virtual worlds. I be-
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many disciplines, like mathematic, chemistry, physics, etc. and volving all teachers of the school, other schools, parents and
there are many ways for motivating and good working educa- of course students, presenting and informing about her work
tional pathways.” Claudia Malta, Teacher for Italy and innovative teaching practices. They also invited regional of-
fice for education and distributed some press releases. The local
5. Transferability of the acquired seminar was very successful with more than 100 teachers and
pupils attending.
competences
Competences acquired within the AVATAR experimentation Other teachers enrolled in the AVATAR course found a very cre-
phase described in previous chapter have been transferred in ative way of interdisciplinary contextualized learning and fur-
a video used by a group of students to apply for the competi- thermore, collaboration and working on problem solving with
tion Enterprise – European Business Game, developed together students of different grades and age. They challenged younger
with a teacher of Business Economy in the same school. The En- children to create two-dimensional drawings of their surround-
terprise project has foreseen a guided set-up of an enterprise, ing natural environment. Then, the teachers built a model world
starting from an idea for a product or service to be put on the in SL with those drawings and presented them to the students
market. The AVATAR group identified in case study 2, realized of 17-18 with the task to develop a sustainable and ecologically
a video in SL for the commercialisation of a carpet that, once acceptable solution for this environment, including observation
stamped, activates the lights of cabinets or showcases so that research, modeling, analysis and synthesis in this learning ex-
the power consumption is limited to the time that people look perience. This approach demonstrated the concept of engaging
at the cabinets. students of different ages working on the same problem in a
3D virtual environment. However, at the same time it calls out
The AVATAR Group has been placed sixth and the video has to use virtual worlds without age limits (e.g. open sims or ac-
been fundamental for this success. The video can be seen at: tive worlds) in educational environments when working with
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbmEFaR_VKU minors.
Another group of students from the same class, won the nation- Finally, some teachers experienced difficulty when working
al award and they are now working for the European competi- alone in SL with larger groups of students. Although the stu-
tion in the end of June 2011. These have been the most exciting dents very much enjoyed the virtual world experience, some
moments of the project: in a few weeks students acquired com- teachers found the work load unmanageable without technical
petences that that were able to use in a different context and assistance and at times stressful.
with a great creativity.

7. Recommendations and Conclusions
6. Unexpected developments and other
In this paper we wanted to give you an insight of the discov-
challenges
ery journey of the AVATAR course – how we defined the cur-
One of the teachers involved in the AVATAR course, from a small riculum and course work for teachers, what was their feedback,
traditional rural community, experienced a massive attack by their use cases, and the results from the experimentation phase
parents because of using Second Life in her teaching. (Parents where teachers created and carried out lessons with their stu-
were not opposed to SL but were questioning application of dents.
teaching with technology as opposed to traditional teaching
methods, and were concerned that new methods might be less Experience and feedback from the piloting of the first 8 mod-
effective.) A meeting with teacher, parents and head of school ules course are listed in form of “Recommendations for Success-
was organized to discuss these issues. The teacher turned to ful Intercultural and Interdisciplinary Delivery of an E-Learning
the AVATAR project community for support and advice how to Course”.
handle this issue.
• Choose carefully the platform and technical environment,
The subsequent meeting went well with the parents giving their so it supports all planed activities and is easy to use and to
full support for experimental work. The teacher and school handle.
used this momentum to organize an info day in their city, in-

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• Allow for sufficient time for activities and consider appro- Finally, we leave you with a quote from one of the participating
priate scaffolding of participants teachers…..
• Organize repeating synchronous activities / events to bust
“What a night - and all the hard work behind! And one can pre-
and maintain motivation and participation
pare and prepare - and then things don’t work out! Well, it is like
• Provide as much support and material as possible in vari- in RL - you cannot control it! So what is the dif. in SL?”
ous languages
Comment from Jens Nerido, teacher from Denmark,
• Provide national discussion groups as to reduce the lan-
posted on the AVATAR forum, May 2011
guage barer
• Create activities to support mixed interdisciplinary and in-
ternational teams

Factors to success are listed as follows:
• Introduce the students to netiquette, so that they can in-
teract with other avatars in the virtual world without caus-
ing offence.
• Support the students in-world by offering note cards with
SLURLs, instructions etc.
• Provide a framework of modules and deadlines that ex-
plain the task.
• Several teachers took part in this project. This meant a lot
in terms of supporting each other in the process of getting
to know Second Life and in terms of supporting the stu-
dents in-world. The group of teachers counted both English
and Computer Science teachers.
• Virtual worlds add an international dimension to language
teaching.
• The AVATAR course proved to be virtual competence devel-
opment for the participating teachers.
• Inform colleagues (teachers) and your didactic manager of
the activities that you will carry out in-world, they will con-
tribute to motivate students.
• Involve the technical staff in your school at an early stage of
your project, they will help you with all the technical prob-
lems (open Firewalls, install Viewer, etc).
• Valorize the work of your students.

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