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Collaborative Work on 3D Educational Content<br />

4.1.6 Paper 6<br />

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<strong>Mikhail</strong> <strong>Fominykh</strong> <strong>and</strong> Ekaterina Prasolova-Førl<strong>and</strong><br />

Virtual Research Arena: Presenting Research in 3D Virtual<br />

Environments<br />

Global Conference on Learning <strong>and</strong> Technology, 2011, AACE.<br />

<strong>Mikhail</strong> <strong>Fominykh</strong> developed presented framework <strong>and</strong> wrote the<br />

paper. Ekaterina Prasolova-Førl<strong>and</strong> provided feedback<br />

throughout the writing process. Both authors conducted the<br />

study.<br />

In this paper, we present Virtual Research Arena – a framework<br />

for creating awareness about educational <strong>and</strong> research activities,<br />

promoting cross-fertilization between different environments,<br />

<strong>and</strong> engaging the general public. We describe the settings <strong>and</strong> the<br />

results <strong>of</strong> the studies conducted to evaluate the framework idea.<br />

The results show that the arena connects research community to<br />

the general public <strong>and</strong> contributes to the university promotion.<br />

The paper contributes towards C5: Virtual Research Arena<br />

framework. In addition, it makes a minor contribution to C3:<br />

Creative Virtual Workshop framework.<br />

The paper answers research question RQ3a: How to support<br />

learning communities by means <strong>of</strong> collaborative work on 3D<br />

content?<br />

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