Me, us and IT: insiders views of the complex technical, organisational and personal elements in using virtual worlds in education

Sue Gregory; Brent Gregory; Denise Wood; Scott Grant; Sasha Nikolic; Mathew Hillier; Merle Hearns; Lisa Jacka; Marcus McDonald; Torsten Reiners; Sharon Lierse; Blooma John; Suku Sukunesan; Emily Rutherford; Jay Jay Jegathesan; Des Butler; Helen Farley; Pauletta Irwin

Me, us and IT: insiders views of the complex technical, organisational and personal elements in using virtual worlds in education

Sue Gregory, Brent Gregory, Denise Wood, Scott Grant, Sasha Nikolic, Mathew Hillier, Merle Hearns, Lisa Jacka, Marcus McDonald, Torsten Reiners, Sharon Lierse, Blooma John, Suku Sukunesan, Emily Rutherford, Jay Jay Jegathesan, Des Butler, Helen Farley, Pauletta Irwin

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The adoption and pedagogical use of technologies such as virtual worlds to support teaching and learning, and research in higher education involves a complex interplay of technical, organisational and personal factors. In this paper, eighteen educators and researchers provide an overview of how they perceive a virtual world can be used in education from the perspective of themselves as individuals 'me', their educational organisations and as members of the Australian and New Zealand Virtual Worlds Working Group (VWWG) community of practice 'us', as well as the complex technology that underpins this learning environment 'IT'. Drawing on Linstone's (1981, 1984) Technical, Organisational and Personal (TOP) multiple perspective concept as the framework for analysis, the authors discuss their perspectives of how the personal, organisational and technical aspects of teaching through the use of virtual worlds have impacted on their teaching and research in higher education. The potential of employing the TOP framework to inform future research into the use of technologies such as virtual worlds in teaching and learning is explored.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Me, Us, IT!
Subtitle of host publication	Proceedings ASCILITE2017: 34th International Conference of Innovation, Practice and Research in the Use of Educational Technologies in Tertiary Education
Editors	H. Partridge, K. Davis, J. Thomas
Publisher	ASCILITE
Pages	260-267
Number of pages	8
Publication status	Published - 2017
Externally published	Yes
Event	International Conference of Innovation, Practice and Research in the Use of Educational Technologies in Tertiary Education (34th : 2017) - Toowoomba, Australia Duration: 4 Dec 2017 → 6 Dec 2017

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Conference	International Conference of Innovation, Practice and Research in the Use of Educational Technologies in Tertiary Education (34th : 2017)
Abbreviated title	ASCILITE 2017
Country/Territory	Australia
City	Toowoomba
Period	4/12/17 → 6/12/17

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Gregory, S., Gregory, B., Wood, D., Grant, S., Nikolic, S., Hillier, M., Hearns, M., Jacka, L., McDonald, M., Reiners, T., Lierse, S., John, B., Sukunesan, S., Rutherford, E., Jegathesan, J. J., Butler, D., Farley, H., & Irwin, P. (2017). Me, us and IT: insiders views of the complex technical, organisational and personal elements in using virtual worlds in education. In H. Partridge, K. Davis, & J. Thomas (Eds.), Me, Us, IT!: Proceedings ASCILITE2017: 34th International Conference of Innovation, Practice and Research in the Use of Educational Technologies in Tertiary Education (pp. 260-267). ASCILITE.

Gregory, Sue ; Gregory, Brent ; Wood, Denise et al. / Me, us and IT : insiders views of the complex technical, organisational and personal elements in using virtual worlds in education. Me, Us, IT!: Proceedings ASCILITE2017: 34th International Conference of Innovation, Practice and Research in the Use of Educational Technologies in Tertiary Education. editor / H. Partridge ; K. Davis ; J. Thomas. ASCILITE, 2017. pp. 260-267

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Me, us and IT: insiders views of the complex technical, organisational and personal elements in using virtual worlds in education. / Gregory, Sue; Gregory, Brent; Wood, Denise et al.
Me, Us, IT!: Proceedings ASCILITE2017: 34th International Conference of Innovation, Practice and Research in the Use of Educational Technologies in Tertiary Education. ed. / H. Partridge; K. Davis; J. Thomas. ASCILITE, 2017. p. 260-267.

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Gregory S, Gregory B, Wood D, Grant S, Nikolic S, Hillier M et al. Me, us and IT: insiders views of the complex technical, organisational and personal elements in using virtual worlds in education. In Partridge H, Davis K, Thomas J, editors, Me, Us, IT!: Proceedings ASCILITE2017: 34th International Conference of Innovation, Practice and Research in the Use of Educational Technologies in Tertiary Education. ASCILITE. 2017. p. 260-267

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