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WSKS 2009: Visioning and Engineering the Knowledge Society. A Web Science Perspective pp 376–385Cite as

Exploring the Potential of Virtual Worlds for Enquiry-Based Learning

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Nowadays academic institutions seek to equip students with interpersonal and project management skills by enhancing their learning experience through the use of new collaborative technologies. This paper presents an enquiry based learning initiative at Manchester Business School. A virtual world environment was introduced to facilitate group project work. The setting was the B.Sc. Information Technology Management for Business (ITMB) programme, a new degree designed to meet the needs of major employers in the business-led IT sector. This paper discusses how the project acted as a vehicle for increasing the involvement of employers in the programme and achieving the objectives of greater student creativity, productivity, engagement, participation and productivity in team work.

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  1. Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, Booth Street East, Manchester, M15 6PB, U.K.

    K. Nadia Papamichail, Amal Alrayes & Linda A. Macaulay

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  1. Open Research Society, NGO, and American College of Greece, Gerakas Attikis, Greece

    Miltiadis D. Lytras

  2. Dipartemento Tecnologie dell’Informazione, Universitá degli Studi di Milano, Via Bramante 65, 26013, Crema, Italy

    Ernesto Damiani

  3. College of Information Sciences and Technology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, USA

    John M. Carroll

  4. College of Education and Human Development, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA

    Robert D. Tennyson

  5. ESSEC Business School, Cergy Pontoise Cedex, France

    David Avison

  6. KMR group at NADA/KTH (Royal Institute of Technology), Lindstedtsv. 5, 100 44, Stockholm, Sweden

    Ambjörn Naeve

  7. Creatifica Associates, Chelveston, Wellingborough, UK

    Adrian Dale

  8. University of Tampere, Finland

    Paul Lefrere

  9. School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Private Bag 92006, 1020, Auckland, New Zealand

    Felix Tan

  10. School of Business, Villanova University, Villanova, PA, USA

    Janice Sipior

  11. European Research Center for Information Systems, University of Münster, Leonardo Campus 3, 48149, Münster, Germany

    Gottfried Vossen

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Papamichail, K.N., Alrayes, A., Macaulay, L.A. (2009). Exploring the Potential of Virtual Worlds for Enquiry-Based Learning. In: Lytras, M.D., et al. Visioning and Engineering the Knowledge Society. A Web Science Perspective. WSKS 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5736. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04754-1_39

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