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Title

Agile in Wonderland: implementing a virtual world workshop activity

Author(s)

Parsons, David;  Stockdale, Rosemary

Abstract

For immersive 3D environments to be useful for specialist teaching, their programming facilities must be powerful enough to enable educators to create flexible learning tools. In this paper we describe the creation of a virtual environment designed to be used to host a workshop activity based on agile software development. Following an initial assessment of some available virtual world tools, the Java-based 'Project Wonderland' was used to create a proof of concept for running the workshop. We discuss the features that were implemented and a number of significant issues encountered during the process. In the light of our experiences, we assess the utility of Project Wonderland as a tool for creating an immersive workshop activity and describe the future work that would be needed to enable a robust and useable environment to be developed.

Publication type

Conference paper

Research centre

Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies

Source

Proceedings of 'Evolving boundaries and new frontiers: defining the IS discipline', the 20th Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS 2009), Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 02-04 December 2009, pp. 55-63

Publication year

2009

FOR Code(s)

0806 Information Systems;  080609 Software Engineering

Keyword(s)

Agile workshop;  Educational tools;  Immersive learning;  Java;  MUVE;  Project Wonderland;  Virtual communities;  Virtual learning environments;  Virtual worlds;  Workshop development

Publisher

Australasian Association for Information Systems

ISBN

9780646525709

Publisher URL

http://www.infotech.monash.edu.au/about/news/conferences/acis09/Proceedings/proceedings.html

Copyright

Proceedings copyright © 2009 Monash University. This paper copyright © 2009 the authors. The authors assign to ACIS and educational and non-profit institutions a non-exclusive licence to use this document for personal use and in courses of instruction provided that the article is used in full and this copyright statement is reproduced. The authors also grant a non-exclusive licence to ACIS to publish this document in full in the Conference Papers and Proceedings. Those documents may be published on the World Wide Web, CD-ROM, in printed form, and on mirror sites on the World Wide Web. Any other usage is prohibited without the express permission of the authors. Published version of the paper reproduced in accordance with this policy.

Additional information

This research was financially supported by the Institute of Information and Mathematical Sciences, Massey University.

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