The impact of virtual world environments on developing student teachers’ skills in light of collaborative learning

The study aimed to treat designing skills deficiency of electronic learning environment through the use of virtual world environments in light of collaborative learning. The study group was limited to (30) students of educational technology who were divided into two experimental groups. The first group (15 students) studied using the cooperative learning strategy (learning together) in a virtual world environment, while the second group (15 students) studied using the cooperative learning strategy (Jigsaw) in a virtual world environment. The study tools consisted of a virtual world environment, a cognitive test for the skills of designing an electronic learning environment, and an observation card to measure the skill aspects related to the skills of designing electronic learning environments. The experimental treatment material, the cognitive test, and the observation card were applied before and after, and the Shapiro test, Levene test, Wilcoxon test, Mann-Whitney test, and Cohen test were used to find the effect size. The results of the study showed the effect of virtual world environments in developing the cognitive and skill aspects of the skills of designing electronic learning environments among students, and the superiority of the Jigsaw strategy in the virtual world environment over the learning together strategy in the virtual world environment in the average ranks of the Mann-Whitney test in the cognitive and performance aspects of the skill of designing an environment.