This document discusses presence pedagogy, an educational approach using 3D virtual worlds. It describes how educators at Appalachian State University built an ActiveWorlds environment called the AET Zone to facilitate online learning communities. Presence pedagogy capitalizes on social constructivism and the sense of presence and co-presence in virtual worlds to encourage collaboration, conversations, and the sharing of knowledge among students and instructors. The model provides a transformative online space where learners can move between different communities of practice.

1. Presence Pedagogy: Building Communities of Practice in Virtual Worlds Stephen Bronack Robert Sanders Amy Cheney Nita Matzen John Tashner

9. What is Gained?

12. See the Difference?

13. Group Discussion of Education in Japan in AET Zone

19. Paradigm Shift (Hargadon, 2008) From: To: Consuming Producing Authority Transparency Expert Facilitator Lecture Hallway Access to information Access to people Learning about Learning to be Passive learning Passionate learning Presentation Participation Publication Conversation Formal schooling Lifelong learning Supply-push Demand-pull.

21. Presence Pedagogy (P2) ‘Churn’