Virtual World Construction and The Relationship to Creativity in Art Education

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Hsiao-Cheng Sandrine Han

Abstract

This paper presents findings from a participatory observational case study with a perspective on creativity. In this research, high school students from Vancouver, Canada, worked in the virtual world of VCER (Virtual Commons for Education and Research), an Open Simulator, to create an ecosystem. The main research question of this study was: How can the virtual world creation process foster student creativity? The sub-questions were 1. How do students express their creativity through the virtual world creation process? And 2. What can teachers do to further student creativity?


Keywords: Virtual worlds; Creativity; Technology. 

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Hsiao-Cheng Sandrine Han, The University of British Columbia

Assistant Professor | Art Education
Art Education Program Coordinator 
Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy  
Faculty of Education 
The University of British Columbia 

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