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End-User Development and Learning in Second Life: The Evolving Artifacts Framework with Application

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We explore the relationship of end-user development (EUD) and learning in a case study informed by a new conceptual framework (evolving artifacts). The case is an online distance education program for training in-service teachers in special education in the 3D virtual world Second Life (SL). The “box,” a specific building block in the SL environment became a multipurpose tool for EUD in the study. The professor of the course designed the learning environment by creating and combining 3D boxes and then used boxes as containers to share course materials to the class. Some of the in-service teachers created boxes to personalize their learning activity. The conceptual framework for analysis integrates EUD concepts and concepts from sociocultural and constructivist learning theories (duality of learning; adaptation). We present an analysis of the participants’ spoken utterances and turn taking around the use of the boxes through the lens of two different EUD and learning situations (technology-adaptation and knowledge-adaptation). We show how participants take up these features to become engaged in the activity. One of the situations required the learners to adopt EUD techniques (technology-adaptation), and the professor used EUD techniques to enable knowledge-adaptation.

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The first author (Mørch) received funding from Dept. of Education, University of Oslo, to explore Second Life as a platform for distance education courses. The second author (Caruso) was a visiting researcher at Dept. of Education, University of Oslo with a 6 months stipend from University of Palermo while the research was carried out. The third author (Hartley) built the virtual campus on a private island provided by WVU’s College of Education & Human Services.

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    Anders I. Mørch

  2. Swiss Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (SFIVET), Lugano, Switzerland

    Valentina Caruso

  3. West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, United States

    Melissa D. Hartley

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Mørch, A.I., Caruso, V., Hartley, M.D. (2017). End-User Development and Learning in Second Life: The Evolving Artifacts Framework with Application. In: Paternò, F., Wulf, V. (eds) New Perspectives in End-User Development. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60291-2_13

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