Breaking the Boundaries: Drama Education in Virtual Worlds and Its Impact on Student Engagement
Abstract
The pedagogy of drama education has come to the fore recent years, especially in the field of language and literature education. It is one of the most effective ways to develop students’ capabilities of expression and creativity. The questions of 1) how to integrate drama-learning into students’ daily lives and to extend the learning space beyond classroom; 2) how to blend drama education with virtual teaching and learning (VLT) as to provide students an interesting and sustainable learning approach; however, have still been discussing and exploring. This drama education project aims to build a metaverse space for drama education which provides students an interactive, safe and novel environment to continue their drama-learning beyond classroom. In this virtual space, students can choose their own avatars to participate in a variety of dramaactivities, such as process drama, character-profiling and rolling role, etc. Toemploy this package as a tool to extend the teachings of communication skills and appreciation of dramatic literature in class, the implementation of the package will be blended with the classroom activities. While language and literature learning serve as the starting point of this project, its ultimate goal is to develop students’ literacy skills. Literacy here refers to the general operational skills, such as reading and writing and a way of cultural perception and critical thinking. In the presentation, the speaker will introduce the metaverse-based drama education package built in this platform and how the package implemented in the mode of blended-learning. The participants in this event will experience the metaverse space and reflect on how the technology of metaverse could be incorporated with their courses as a way to engage students beyond the classroom.
Speaker: Hiu Yan Alice Cheung
Published in: World Congress on Education (2024)
- Date of Conference: 26-28 August, 2024
- DOI: 10.20533/WCE.2024.0006
- Electronic ISBN: 978-1-913572-71-6
- Conference Location: Churchill College, Cambridge, UK