A CALL for evolving teacher education through 3D microteaching
Date Issued
August 2016
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DOI
10.14705/rpnet.2016.eurocall2016.590
Abstract
This paper describes micro-teaching delivery in virtual worlds. Emphasis
is placed on examining the effectiveness of Singularity Viewer, an Internet-based
Multi-User Virtual Environment (MUVE) as the tool used for assessment of the
student teacher performance. The overall goal of this endeavour lies in exploiting
the opportunities derived from such an immersive environment in order to provide
better distance education. To this end, a total of eight language teacher practitioners
from different parts of the world took part in this study and engaged in peermicroteaching
as part of their Master of Arts (MA) in Computer Assisted Language
Learning (CALL) programme. Data acquisition involved screen recordings of the
peer microteaching sessions, statements in participants’ reflective journals and
both debriefings and written communication within the virtual world. Our results
indicated the positive potential of using MUVE platforms as instruments in the
assessment of student teacher performance.
is placed on examining the effectiveness of Singularity Viewer, an Internet-based
Multi-User Virtual Environment (MUVE) as the tool used for assessment of the
student teacher performance. The overall goal of this endeavour lies in exploiting
the opportunities derived from such an immersive environment in order to provide
better distance education. To this end, a total of eight language teacher practitioners
from different parts of the world took part in this study and engaged in peermicroteaching
as part of their Master of Arts (MA) in Computer Assisted Language
Learning (CALL) programme. Data acquisition involved screen recordings of the
peer microteaching sessions, statements in participants’ reflective journals and
both debriefings and written communication within the virtual world. Our results
indicated the positive potential of using MUVE platforms as instruments in the
assessment of student teacher performance.
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