CFP-AMCIS 2010 Minitrack on Education and Training in Virtual Worlds

You are invited to submit papers to the AMCIS 2010 Mini-track:  
Education and Training in Virtual Worlds, to be held August 12-15,  
2010 in Lima, Peru.

Description
Virtual worlds present new platforms for enhancing education and  
training.  With abilities to simulate the physical world or build  
entirely new worlds, new approaches to learning abound.  The rich  
environment lends itself to providing interactive experiences such  
that hands-on learning activities can be conducted and a constructive  
learning approach taken.  Also, the essence of a shared space opens up  
new avenues for collaborative and social learning.  Educators and  
organizations are expanding their traditional approaches to training,  
learning, and knowledge transfer to capitalize on the new  
opportunities and the unique aspects that abound with virtual worlds.

Hence, this mini-track seeks to explore the opportunities as well as  
the issues associated with education and training in virtual world  
environments.  We encourage paper submissions that study the  
development, use, and assessment of virtual worlds in education and  
training contexts, both from the instructor?s and the learner?s  
perspective.  We welcome papers that study the application of virtual  
worlds in this context as well as challenge such applications.  This  
mini-track is open to both theoretical and empirical studies, and is  
open to all research methods (e.g., survey, field study, case study,  
experimentation).

Potential topics may include (but are not limited to):

--Development of frameworks for evaluating educational and training  
applications in virtual world environments
--Theoretical models describing the development, use, and assessment  
of virtual world technologies in educational and training contexts
--Research on novel, innovative uses of virtual world technologies for  
pedagogical and training purposes
--Examinations of implementations, adoptions, and outcomes of virtual  
world technologies in education and training along with factors  
influencing these activities
--Meta-analyses of virtual world research and the implications for  
education and training
--Issues, limitations, and barriers surrounding virtual worlds in  
education and training


Mini-track Co-Chairs:

Brenda Eschenbrenner
Department of Management, CBA 209
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Lincoln, NE 68588-0491, USA
beschenb@unlserve.unl.edu

Keng Siau
Department of Management, CBA 209
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Lincoln, NE 68588-0491, USA
ksiau@unlnotes.unl.edu

Submission Process
Full paper submissions must be made electronically through Manuscript
Central Submission Site (http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/amcis2010).   
Papers will be peer reviewed using a double-blind system.

Important Dates:
?     January 4, 2010:  Manuscript Central Opens for Paper Submissions
?     March 1, 2010:    Submissions Due
?     April 12, 2010:    Author Notification of Acceptance
?     April 26, 2010:    Camera-Ready Copy Due

More information is available at http://www.amcis2010.org or by  
contacting the mini-track chairs.



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