Teacher Presence in a Different Light: Authority Shift in Multi-user Virtual Environments

Teacher presence has been considered one of the cornerstones of students’ motivation and engagement in traditional and online education. However, we argue that diminished teacher presence can actually be beneficial for building a democratic, student-led classroom. We hypothesize that this can be achieved through the use of an Open Source Educative Processes framework and what is known as multi-user virtual environments (MUVEs). Social Network...