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A scholarly repository of peer-reviewed research and immersive learning studies – building possibility through education across six decades.

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    2026 Educational Futures to 2035 and 2045: Scenarios, Switches and the Choices to Make Now

    2026· Future Science Archives
  2. 02

    2026 Close the Gap or Widen It? AI, Equity and Learning at the Weakest Link

    2026· Future Science Archives
  3. 03

    2026 Leading the Redesign: Purpose, Ecosystems and Sequencing in School Leadership for AI

    2026· Future Science Archives
  4. 04

    2026 The Broken Bottom Rung: Entry-Level Work, Durable Capability and What Schools Should Prepare Young People For

    2026· Future Science Archives
  5. 05

    2026 Growing Up with Machines That Talk Back: Wellbeing, Attachment and the Developing Mind in AI-Mediated Childhood

    2026· Future Science Archives
  6. 06

    2026 Teachers at the Centre: Closing the Teacher AI Gap through Professional Learning, Time and Agency

    2026· Future Science Archives
  7. 07

    2026 Governing AI in Education: Uneven Rules, Thin Evidence and Procurement as Policy

    2026· Future Science Archives
  8. 08

    2026 When the Artefact Is No Longer Evidence: Assessment Validity and Academic Integrity in the Age of Generative AI

    2026· Future Science Archives
  9. 09

    2026 What Counts as AI Literacy? A Comparative Analysis of International Frameworks and System-Level Policies, 2024–2026

    2026· Future Science Archives
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    2026 Learn first, then use AI

    2026· Future Science Archives
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    2026 The black box in the research room

    2026· Journal for AI Generated Papers
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    2026 Navigating AI governance

    2026· Preprint
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    2026 Immersive research in the Metaverse

    2026· Final manuscript
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    2026 Virtual learning: Second Life to Metaverse

    2026· With L. Al Hadhrami· Final manuscript
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    2026 Immersive research in virtual worlds

    2026· Preprint
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    2025 Virtual education in Second Life

    2025· With L. Al Hadhrami· Preprint
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    2025 VR and the Metaverse in education

    2025· With L. Al Hadhrami· Applied and Computational Engineering
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    2025 Conducting immersive research in the Metaverse

    2025· Contemporary Applications and Best Practices
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    2014 Confucian heritage culture learning approaches

    2014· With R. van der Veen· Journal of Teaching in Travel & Tourism, 14(1), 69–86
    33 citations
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    2013 Hotel co-branding research in Second Life

    2013· With B.D. Guillet· International Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Administration, 14(1), 23–49
    15 citations
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    2012 Hospitality education in China

    2012· With L. Wei and A. Ladkin· Journal of China Tourism Research, 8(1), 61–77
    19 citations
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    2011 Multi-user virtual environments in HE

    2011· Journal of Technical Education Science, 6(2), 42–53
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    2010 Blended learning in hospitality and tourism

    2010· With L. Pang and S. Wong· Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Education, 22(1), 15–22
    17 citations
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    2009 Learning through Second Life

    2009· Journal of Teaching in Travel & Tourism, 8(2–3), 139–160
    141 citations
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    2009 Second Life first year experience

    2009· With P. Duffy· Journal for Virtual Worlds Research, 2(5)
    13 citations
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    2010 Virtual communities of practice

    2010· Third International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
    25 citations
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    2010 Chinese tourism curriculum

    2010· With A. Ladkin· 8th APacCHRIE Conference
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    2008 Blended learning perceptions

    2008· With L. Pang· Best Refereed Paper Award
    7 citations
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    2007 Virtual hotel teaching environment

    2007· With H. Ma and W.F. Kong· IADIS International Conference Proceedings, 194–199
    11 citations
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    2006 VIRTEL virtual hotel simulation

    2006· With W.F. Kong and W.K.A. Lee· Asia-Pacific Educational Research Association
    7 citations
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    2011 Teaching, Learning & Research in Virtual Worlds–The PolyU Experience

    2011· With C. Lau· PolyU Virtual Campus Seminar
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    2010 Global education trends

    2010
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    2011 Interviews with my Avatar

    2011· With B. Denizci and Z. Liu· AAOU Conference 2011, Penang, Malaysia
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    2011 Multi-user virtual environments in HE

    2011· ELATE 2011
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    2010 Hotel co-branding research in Second Life

    2010· With B. Denizci and Z. Liu· APacCHRIE 2010, Phuket, Thailand
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    2009 Tourism education in virtual worlds–Future or Fantasy?

    2009· UNWTO Ulysses Education and Science Council Conference, Madrid
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    2008 Educating my Avatar

    2008· The Role of New Technologies in Global Societies, Hong Kong
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