Communicating across Cultures in the Classroom using an online 3D Virtual World

Theodor Wyeld

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-22763-9_2

Communicating across Cultures in the Classroom using an online 3D Virtual World

Theodor Wyeld

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The Information and Communication Technology (ICT) industry is inherently a global industry. As such, it requires workers to collaborate across timezones and different cultures. There is little scope for undergraduates of ICT to directly experience this sort of cross-cultural environment whilst studying. The project outlined in this paper describes the need to introduce students to cross-cultural experiences in a work environment and how this was achieved using an online collaborative 3D virtual world. Students from 3 geographically distant institutions collaborated in the online construction of a 3D Tower of Babel. How they went about this and their inventive methods for overcoming cross-cultural communication difficulties is discussed. This paper forms the basis for a keynote talk at ICHL2011.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	10-16
Number of pages	7
Journal	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume	6837
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22763-9_2
Publication status	Published - 2011

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3D virtual world
cross-culture
online collaboration

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