Virtual Learning Environments: Unveiling Learning and Identity

This book provides education scholars insight into current theoretical and methodological approaches to conceptualize, facilitate, and examine learning and identity in virtual learning environments such as games and simulations.

Aroutis Foster, PhD, is the Interim Dean, Professor of Learning Sciences and Technologies, and Director of the Games and Learning in Interactive Environments (GLIDE) Lab at Drexel University of School of Education. His research interests include games and learning, identity exploration, STEM education, and quantitative ethnography. He founded the Drexel Learning Games Network and serves on the boards of several journals and organizations related to technology and learning.

Mamta Shah, PhD is a Senior Learning Scientist at Elsevier. She is also an instructor at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education, a Faculty Fellow at the Penn Center for Learning Analytics, and a member of the Board of Directors at The Miquon School.