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Calling a meeting to order…sort of. The other day, a blog reader sent me an email asking about Immersive Learning and wanted some information about what it meant and how it is being used. So, here are some interesting facts and figures about immersive learning environments. But first, let’s define the term. Immersive Learning—An umbrella […]
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Leave a Comment (4) →Sitting around a conference table for class. Another question and this one is simple…why 3D? We’ve got plenty of great 2D platforms for communication, what does 3D add? Here is a short answer. In a 3D world, the interaction with the students feels more intimate than with a 2-D distance learning application such as Centra, […]
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Leave a Comment (5) →Students standing outside of green building on MSIT island.Another question about virtual worlds and learning. How do you get learners to engage in higher order cognitive skills (e.g., abstraction; synthesis; evaluation; experimentation; reflection) in a virtual world? Virtual worlds are ideal for placing a learner into a problem solving situation. For teaching higher order skills […]
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Leave a Comment (2) →In the course of a week, I get asked many questions about Virtual Worlds, an interesting one that keeps occurring goes something like this. It seems that students find virtual worlds boring. None of my students “hang out” in-world except for class activities, and my students rarely go into virtual worlds after the semester is […]
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Leave a Comment (2) →Here is an intriguing story about killing another person’s avatar…and going to jail for it. The story Online divorcee jailed after killing virtual hubby tells of a 43 year old Japanese women who hacked into a computer system and killed her virtual husband. The woman, who is jailed on suspicion of illegally accessing a computer […]
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Leave a Comment (1) →One of the things that I love about the Internet (Cue the violins) is the life that presentations and information after the live presentation is over and begins to fade from memory. Because we now have blogs, wikis, podcasting and Web 2.0 the presentations can add value long after the presenter has “left the building.” […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →This upcoming Tuesday, I will be speaking close to home in State College PA…home of Penn State on the topic of “Why 3D Worlds for Learning?” It promises to be a lot of fun since many alumni from our program are working at Penn State in various departments and capacities. I look forward to seeing […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →Today, I came across a posting by David Holloway known in Second Life as Lowell Cremorne (Pictured below.)David is the Founder and Editor of The Metaverse Journal.David/Lowell took some time and expanded on my recent blog entry Questions About Second Life. Check out his take on the questions at Study: Students’ Social Systems Support Successes. […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →Recently, I received a some really good questions related specifically to Second Life but primarily are about virtual worlds and the use of these worlds for education. I’ll answer the questions here since I think they reflect concerns that many educators have related to the social networks and Second Life. 1) Kids use these “places” […]
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Leave a Comment (3) →This morning, I had a great time giving a presentation to a group over in the UK via a mash up of Skype and Second Life. I presented to the Eduverse Foundation Symposium. Of course I would have liked to have been there in person but, since it was a virtual world conference, I figured […]
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