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Exploration in Virtual Worlds:
New Digital Multi-Media Literacy
Investigations for Art Education
Mary stokrocki, editor
Exploration in Virtual Worlds aims to explore current
pedagogical efforts of virtual world teaching and discover
potentials for art instruction through virtual worlds in
unique ways and to diverse audiences.
Focusing specifically on virtual worlds, this anthology
includes conceptual explorations and virtual art world
examples in higher education—with children, senior
citizens, alternative audiences, and in different countries.
It also features museum education outreach, holistic
assessments, pros and cons, and future directions and
concerns.
With over 60 online virtual worlds and 400 universities
offering courses, these sites offer tremendous opportunities
for artistic teaching and learning. Intended to meet the
needs of art teachers at all levels as well as international
markets, Exploration in Virtual Worlds examines the concept
and goals of digital literacy and virtual worlds, gives
a short history of the impact of virtual worlds, and offers
contemporary types and future trends for virtual worlds and
art education.
ISBN 978-1-890160-63-0
(2014) 168 pp.
Order No. 329
$37; Member price $32
“
Virtual worlds are ideally suited for identity play because
they provide such a wide variety of self-illustrative
resources…. Educational technology is not a way of the
future; it is the way children are learning now.”
—Jenny Evans, former art teacher; doctoral candidate,
Education Department, Exeter University, England
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