2. Toward a conceptual framework for
3D-remediation of pedagogic practice
• A case study of people, places and practices
remediated through Second Life (SL)
• RQ1: How does 3D-remediation impact a
particular community of pedagogic practice?
– Case: Master in ICT and Learning (MIL), 6 week online
course on ”ICT and pedagogic design”
– 3 completed research cycles from 2007-2009
• RQ2: How can an Action Research approach inform the
process of remediating pedagogic practice?

3. Lave & Wenger
• Learning happens in
situated practice
• Creation of meaning
through negotiation
• Keywords are:
– Experience
– Doing
– Belonging
– Becoming

4. Vygotsky
• Our interaction with the
world is mediated via
tools/artifacts
• Activity is cultural and
historically situated and
facilitates learning
• New tools change the
structure and outcome
of practice

5. Bolter & Grusin
• Remediation refers to how
new, digital media refashion
and reform older media –
changing structure and
outcome of practice
• Hypermediacy = aims at
enhancing the user’s
awareness of the
mediation/the media
• Immediacy = aims at
diminishing the user’s
awareness of the
mediation/the media

6. Respectful remediation
• Main objective is to reproduce pr
ior practice with no apparent crit
ique –
often focusing on a quantitative
outcome.
• Other media are represented wit
hout manipulation in the mediati
on.
• In general, this type of remediati
on enhances the authenticity and
enforces the authority of the ori
ginal media and practice.
• Tradition, familiarity and certainty
are keywords in this strategy.
• Changes are experienced as mino
r, evolutionary modifications and
typically only involve change in
modality, not specific activities.

7. Radical remediation
• Main objective is to reform prior
practice based on critical review
–
often focusing on a qualitative o
utcome.
• Other media are represented ma
nipulatively in the mediation.
• In general, this type of remediati
on challenges both authenticity a
nd authority of the original medi
a and practice.
• Innovation, alienation and uncert
ainty are keywords in this strateg
y.
• Changes are experienced as majo
r, revolutionary transformations,
and typically involve change in bo
th modality and activities.

8. Basic model of remediation of pedagogic
practice – strategic level

9. 1. Research cycle (MIL07)
• Explore SL and the impact on
this community
• 22 students, 1 teacher
• Respectful remediation
• Self-directed learning, little
in-world facilitation
• Interventions proved
necessary

• 5 scheduled activities

10. Basic model of remediation of pedagogic
practice – tactic level

11. 2. Research cycle (MIL08)
• Further explore SL and
activities
• 12 students, 1 teacher and 2
guest-teachers
• Radical remediation
• Self-directed learning, but high
in-world facilitation
• 25 scheduled activities

12. 3. Research cycle (MIL09)
• Further explore SL, activities
and new assessment
method
• 8 students, 2 teachers and
guests
• Radical remediation
• Self-directed learning, but
high in-world facilitation
• 15 scheduled activities

13. New assessment method – in-world
presentations of Didactic Analysis

14. 3D-remediation model

15. 4. Research cycle (MIL10)
• Further explore activities
and assessment method
• 12 students, 1 teacher and
guests
• Radical remediation
• Self-directed learning, high
in-world facilitation
• 10 scheduled activities +
the students’
presentations

16. More info on my research blog
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