Research - Vanessa Camilleri - University of Malta

My research interest areas are:

Virtual Worlds in Education
Social Networks - the phenomenon of communication for learning
Mobile learning: pedagogies and applications for learning practices
Human Connectivism and Community Interactions
Artificial Intelligence applied to Teaching/Learning processes
Technology-enhanced Learning
Media design for Education

Publications

[1] Camilleri, V. (2012). Opportunities online: Directions in learning paths at higher education. The 44^Th EUCEN Conference – Border Crossing as a Viable Choice: Collaboration, Dialogue and Access to Higher Education, Valletta, Malta.

[2] Camilleri, V., Busuttil, L., & Montebello, M. (2011). Social interactive learning in multiplayer games
. In M. Ma, A. Oikonomou & L. Jain (Eds.), Serious games and edutainment applications (pp. 481). UK: Springer-Verlag. doi:10.1007/978-1-4471-2161-9_23

[3] Camilleri, V., Busuttil, L., & Montebello, M. (2013). MOOCs – exploiting networks for the education of the masses or just a trend? In G. Mallia (Ed.), The social classroom: Integrating social network use in education. IGI Global.

[4] Camilleri, V., de Freitas, S., & Montebello, M. (2013). A pre-service teacher immersive experience. 3^Rd Global Conference Experiential Learning in Virtual Worlds, ELVW, Lisbon, Portugal.

[5] Camilleri, V., deFreitas, S., Montebello, M., & McDonagh Smith, P. (2013). A case study inside virtual worlds: Use of analytics for immersive spaces. 3^Rd International Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge, LAK2013, Leuven, Belgium. 230-234. doi:10.1145/2460296.2460341

[6] Camilleri, V., & Montebelllo, M. (2009). MoRVEus – a mobile reality in virtual education for world culture; do you choose the red or the blue pill? Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Interactive Mobile and Computer Aided Learning, IMCL2009, Amman, Jordan.

[7] Camilleri, V., & Montebello, M. (2010). Social E-spaces: Socio-collaborative spaces within virtual worlds. Proceedings of the 7^Th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC2010, Valletta, Malta.

[8] Camilleri, V., & Montebello, M. (2011). Virtual world presence for pre-service teachers: Does the TAM model apply? Proceedings of 3rd International Conference in Games and Virtual Worlds for Serious Applications (VS-Games 2011), Athens, Greece.

[9] Dingli, A., Mifsud, J., Montebello, M., Seychell, D., & Camilleri, V. (2012). Transition to 3D Social Networking. The 2012 Cyberworlds International Conference, CW, Darmstadt, Germany. 184-190. doi:http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/CW.2012.33

[10] Montebello, M., & Camilleri, V. (2012). A Teacher Trainer AI agent. The IADIS International Conference on International Higher Education, 2012, Perth, Australia.

[11] Wirz, M., Mitleton-Kelly, E., Franke, T., Camilleri, V., Montebello, M., Roggen, D., . . . Troster, G. (2013). Using mobile technology and a participatory sensing approach for crowd monitoring and management during large-scale mass gatherings. In E. Mitleton-Kelly (Ed.), Co-evolution of intelligent socio-technical systems (pp. 61-77). UK: Springer.