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Facilitating Group Discussions in Second Life
This paper reports on a case study of group facilitation in Second Life, a three-dimensional virtual world that simulates places either in the real or imaginary worlds with capabilities of synchronous communications in text, gesture, and audio formats. The participants were four graduate students facilitating group discussions in a virtual world called Second Life. The study took a qualitative approach revealing the essence of group facilitation in a virtual world (e.g., Second Life). The article discusses five important themes that emerged through data analysis and offers implications and suggestions for group facilitators to work in a virtual world like Second Life.
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- Material Type:
- Open (Access) Journal-Article
- Date Added to MERLOT:
- July 16, 2014
- Date Modified in MERLOT:
- July 26, 2016
- Authors:
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Charles Xiaoxue Wang,
Florida Gulf Coast University
Scott Anstadt, Florida Gulf Coast University
Jamie Goldman, Florida Gulf Coast University
Mary L. M. Lefaiver, Florida Gulf Coast University - Submitter:
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Barbra Bied Sperling
- Primary Audience:
- College General Ed, College Lower Division, College Upper Division, Graduate School
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- Adobe reader or web browser
- Language:
- English
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This work is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States
