Vanessa Camilleri is Assistant Lecturer at University of Malta and Distance Tutor at STC Malta. On her staff page she explains –

“My primary area of research lies mostly in the use of Virtual Worlds (WWs) and Social Networking (SN) for Education. There have been many discussions about pedagogical frameworks, interaction processes, use of technology for teaching and learning, but I would like to bring all of these together under one single virtual world and explore ways and means of measuring the effectiveness in the teaching/learning paradigm so as to come up with a model for best practice guidelines in the design of VWs for Education.”

Also an active Twitter user Vanessa has recently started a LinkedIn group for gaming in education called gameED. Join us there!