1. Our Interest in VHRD
• Interest in immersive, more engaging learning for students
• Work with military and allied health in virtual simulations
• Previous research in instructional design, online learning,
virtual worlds, and evaluation
• Used Second Life for virtual office hours starting 2007
• Used Active Worlds in course projects in 2008
• 2008, 2009, 2010 AHRD presentation about using Virtual
Worlds in HRD
• UNC-TLT presentations in
Second Life
• Dissertation research

2. About the Article
• Need: no consensus on what or how to evaluate learning
in Virtual Worlds
• Purpose: address methods and assessment techniques
for measuring learning outcomes in VWs
• Qualitative case study investigating evaluation practices in
VWs & their relevance to VHRD, & literature review on
evaluation and virtual worlds

3. Significance to VHRD
• Capturing learning that measures performance
• Evaluating in context: performance based learning,
authentic assessment, social learning, group learning
artifacts, peer evaluation
• Developing formalized evaluation plans & strategies
for VHRD
• Reducing barriers for HRD practitioners