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Project Title : PolyU Virtual Hotel

Teacher Feedback on teaching and learning using Second Life

Part A: Virtual Teaching

Q.1 How would you describe you in-class experience of virtual teaching?

Very interesting Interesting Neutral Not very helpful Troublesome

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Q.2 How would you rate the benefits of using Second Life to assist your teaching?

Very good Good Satisfactory OK Poor

More realistic

Interactive

Fun

Arouse interest

Effective in gaining knowledge Updates information

Improve collaboration

Improve cooperation

Improve communication

Q.3 Do you think that virtual teaching is a good option for encouraging students learning andeffective knowledge transferring?

YES NOComment (if any):

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Q4 What kind of support is most significant for you to use Second Life in teaching?

Training workshop for teachers

Training workshop for students

Activity / Game design based on the curriculum

In-class technical support

Assessment tool

Log specific data for evaluation Media materials preparation

Multimedia tools development, such as projector for powerpoint

Any other comments about support provided for Second Life (if any):___________________________________________________________________________

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Q.5a What are the drawbacks of virtual teaching?

Drawback

Long training time required

Too much dependency on the technology (software and hardware)

Employment risk

Lack of human interaction

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Q.5b What are the advantages of virtual teaching?

Advantage

Provide more interesting learning experience

Catch up to the up-to-date educational trends, such as game-based learning

International interaction

Broaden the view of both teachers and students

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Q.6 What worked well in your virtual teaching experience?

Comment

Learning environment

Learning effectiveness

Interactions with others

Voice or chat

Other (please specify: _______

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Q.7 What didnt work in your virtual teaching experience?

Comment

Learning environment

Learning effectiveness

Movement and control

Voice or chat

Other (please specify: _______

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Q.8 What could be done better to improve the learning activities to give you a more useful

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Q.9 Do you have any other suggestions on how PolyU could use Second Life for learning andteaching? What subjects could benefit, and how?

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Part B: Using Second Life

Q.10 How would you rate the level of difficulty when using Second Life ?

Catergory Very easy Easy Manageable Difficult Very difficult

Registration

Installation

Basic Control

Movement

Communication(e.g. chat, voice)

Transportation

Appearancemodification

Searching

Inventory

Q.11 What are the most attractive or interesting things you found about Second Life?

Features (You can tick more thanone)

You can modify your avatars appearance.

You can go visiting different places in Second Life.

You can meet different people in Second Life.

You can create any object you want based on teaching.

You can experience another dimension of activity in the virtual world

You can enjoy voice or chat with friends and people from all over the world

You can have a free account registration

You are attracted by the 3D virtual environment

You can enjoy media shared from all over the world in Second Life

You can join events in Second Life

Others (Please specify : ________________________________________)

Q.12 What was your experience of dealing with an avatar in this virtual world?

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Enjoyable Realistic Satisfactory Difficult Hard

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Q.12 Any other comments about using Second Life (if any):___________________________________________________________________________

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Part C: Virtual gaming and simulations experience

Q.13 What is your experience ofvirtual gaming or simulation? (Choose the most suitable one)

Appreciated Satisfied Frustrated Annoyed

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Q.14 Have you participated in any virtual worlds before, such as Habbo Hotel or World of Warcraft?If so, please list your top three impressive worlds and how you feel about them:

(1)________________________________ (reason : _________________________________

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(2)_____________________________________ (reason : ____________________________

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(3)_____________________________________ (reason : ____________________________

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Q.15 Do you have any experience in using any other web-based tools such as Blogs, YouTube orsocial networking (MySpace etc)? If so, please tick with your comment.

(You can choose more than one) Fantastic Average Poor Comment

Facebook Flickr MySpace Youtube Skype Others : _______________

Other comment (if any):__________________________________________________________________________

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Part D: Demographics

Q.16 Personal Information (tick the appropiate one)

16.1 Gender : Male Female

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16.2 Year of teaching: _____________

16.3 Major field of teaching:

Hotel Tourism Other (Please specify: ____________________)

16.4 Nationality: ____________________

16.5 Age: below 25 25 30 30 35 35 40 above 40

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