Tracing Learning Across, Within, and Between "Real" and "Virtual" Worlds: A Discussion of Methods, Ethics, and Findings

Authors

Deborah A. Fields, Utah State UniversityFollow
Y. B. Kafai
G. Jacobs
C. Steinkuehler
S. Duncan
E. King
D. Simkins
D. Fahser-Herro
E. Alagoz
T. Satwicz
R. Stevens
L. McCarthy
M. Giang
E. Lam

Document Type

Presentation

Journal/Book Title/Conference

Tracing Learning Across, Within, and Between "Real" and "Virtual" Worlds: A Discussion of Methods, Ethics, and Findings

Publication Date

2009

Abstract

There is a renewed recognition that we must study people across different spaces in their lives to better understand situated learning. Since most studies across spaces have been published in the last five years, it is time to step back and share what we know about cross-spatial learning. Further, developing methods to study people across these cross-disciplinary, multi-world spaces is challenging to say the least and involves pragmatic as well as ethical challenges. This symposium brings together researchers from different disciplines in education who have engaged in multi-year studies across informal/formal/virtual/real worlds. The object is to share diverse solutions to methodological and ethical challenges and synthesize major findings concerning learning in these cross-space studies for future directions in research.

Comments

Presentation at the Symposium Conducted at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Diego, CA

Recommended Citation

Fields, D. A. (organizer), Kafai, Y.B. (chair), Jacobs, G., Steinkuehler, C., Duncan, S., King, E., Simkins, D., Fahser-Herro, D., Alagoz, E., Satwicz, T., Stevens, R., McCarthy, L., Giang, M., & Lam, E. (2009, April). Tracing learning across, within, and between ‘real’ and ‘virtual’ worlds: A discussion of methods, ethics, and findings. Symposium conducted at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Diego, CA.