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Last night I presented at the Greater Philadelphia Chapter of ASTD and ran into a bunch of old friends and made some new ones. The planning for the meeting started some time ago and the innovative learning in 3D folks practiced what we preached and had our planning meetings in 3D virtual spaces. One such […]
Continue Reading →Here are links to some research which indicates that moving through a computer generated interface as an avatar provides powerful learning stimulus. Here are the slides: Why 3D Immersive Environments View more presentations from Karl Kapp. Here are some points from an article titled Promoting motivation with virtual agents and avatars: role of visual presence and […]
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Leave a Comment (2) →As you may know, Linden, on October 4th, announced a plan to raise prices for educational and non-profit users of Second Life and not a little increase, a whopping doubling of the previous discount. Of course there was a backlash and so Linden has offered up a temporary solution, one which will bring in monies […]
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Leave a Comment (3) →At the Learning in Different Worlds conference held in Lahti, Finland, my colleague and contributor to “Learning in 3D’ is presenting about virtual immersive environments and discussing different attitudes toward these environments and describing how educators can use these environments for learning. For the next two days, you can follow the tweets at #oem2010. The […]
Continue Reading →Over at Virtual Worlds News, an article titled “Microsoft Buys Vivaty For New Project, May Be Looking For More” indicates that Microsoft has purchased the defunct virtual world of Vivaty. Virtual World News reports: It turns out that Microsoft is the previously unnamed company that acquired Vivaty, a virtual world competing with Second Life that […]
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Leave a Comment (4) →Here is a table from Learning in 3D (shown below) that describes many different design considerations and the associated questions you want to ask when building a 3D learning experience. Answering these questions will help you to develop effective instruction within 3D environments. Design Principle Key Questions To Consider Instructionally Grounded § Is the learning […]
Continue Reading →In many organizations, people need to receive training for unlikely but possible events (such as a blow out on an oil rig or the blow out of two engines on an airplane because of bird strikes.). These are critical incidents and 3D learning environments can help people prepare and train for these events. Training in […]
Continue Reading →Learning in 3D Class sitting around conference room table. Jumping into a virtual world can be a fun but scary and daunting place for first timers. As instructional designers, one of our “missions” is to help learners overcome the scary and daunting aspects so learning occurs. One of my beliefs is that designers need to […]
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Leave a Comment (17) →In Learning in 3D,we asked Steve Mahaley, of Duke Corporate Education for some ways he overcomes objections and resistance from executives and others to using 3D virtual immersive environments (VIES) for learning and collaboration, here is what he said. To address this with our clientele, I usually refer to some of the research and writing […]
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Leave a Comment (1) →Constantly I am asked this question about 3D that really make me crazy. Here is my short rant. 1) Where is the empirical data about the effectiveness of 3D learning? We can’t do anything until we see the evidence of its effectiveness for learning. Seems valid. Let’s see, I must have the evidence of the […]
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