Teaching through multi-user virtual environments : applying dynamic elements to the modern classroom

1. Overcoming objections to MUVEs in education / Daniel Laughlin -- 2. The recursive knowledge development model for virtual environments / Nan Adams, Thomas DeVaney -- 3. The techno-pedagogical context of distance learning / Timothy Duruz -- 4. ICT applications in U.S. higher education / Michelle Crosby-Nagy, John Carfora -- 5. Digital intelligence / Nan Adams -- 6. Faculty professional learning / Olga Alegre, Luis Villar -- 7. The affordances of second life for education / Craig Cunningham, Kimball Harrison -- 8. Learning in virtual worlds / Antonio Santos -- 9. CSCL techniques in collaborative virtual environments / Thrasyvoulos Tsiatsos, Andreas Konstantinidis, Theodouli Terzidou, Lazaros Ioannidis, Chrysanthi Tseloudi -- 10. Designing Web-based educational virtual reality environments / Kosmas Dimitropoulos, Athanasios Manitsaris -- 11. Teaching in the virtual theatre classroom / Stephen Schrum -- 12. Case study of ASCIT / Fabian Di Fiore, Peter Quax, Wim Lamotte, Frank Van Reeth -- 13. Staging second life in real and virtual spaces / Russell Fewster, Denise Wood, Joff Chafer -- 14. The benefits and unanticipated challenges in the use of 3D virtual learning environments in the undergraduate media arts curriculum / Denise Wood -- 15. Task design for language learning in an embodied environment / Paul Sweeney, Cristina Palomeque, Dafne González, Chris Speck, Douglas Canfield, Suzanne Guerrero, Pete MacKichan --