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Creating Context for Educational Research in Virtual Worlds: An Invitation to Dialogue

In this special issue of the International Journal of Gaming and Computer-Mediated Simulations we provide a compilation of the top five papers as rated by reviewers and executive officers of the Applied Research in Virtual Environments for Learning Special Interest Group (ARVEL SIG), presented at the 2009 annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA). Also included in this issue is an invited book review, as well as this introduction that serves as an overview and an invitation to scholars abstraCt