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How Virtual Worlds Can Transform Learning

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Originally published in TEACH Magazine, May/June 2014 issue

By Gord Holden

So what are Interactive Virtual Learning Environments, and how do they foster transformational learning? This brief video serves as an introduction: http://bit.ly/1oHvWr6.

My journey in this field began in Vancouver 30 years ago, as an aid with Trainable Mentally Handicapped students. Designated as ‘uneducable,’ these students were relegated to gaining work experience. Noticing they easily recounted movie plots and the artists and lyrics of Top 40 songs, it occurred to me that the real handicap might be a teaching methodology that was incompatible with their learning styles.

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Gord Holden is an Immersive Technology Specialist and Heritage Christian Online School in Kelowna, BC.

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