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A few months ago, Tony O’Driscoll and I teamed up with Daniel Bliton and Charles Gluck for a discussion of some of the topics of Learning in 3D, here are the videos. And the second: If you liked the videos, check out the book:
Continue Reading →Yesterday, Philip Linden (AKA: Philip Rosedale ) stepped down as CEO of Linden Labs (yes again). He has done this before and then come back. He is staying on the board but not running day-to-day operations. Here is what he wrote on the Second Life blog. You can find the original here. After about four […]
Continue Reading →If you are a local, state or even national government official interested in virtual worlds, you can get your own piece of digital realestate at GovGrid. A virtual immersive environment constructed strictly for governments. As the site says: GovGrid is a 3D, multi-user virtual world created to connect government and engage citizens. Built on OpenSim […]
Continue Reading →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) →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 →Perhaps a little too over the top for a job interview. You have probably been wondering what you should wear in case you ever went on a virtual world job interview. I know its been keeping me awake at night. In fact, I once went to a virtual interview to talk about the Learning in […]
Continue Reading →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 →Here are four things organizations can do in 3D virtual immersive environments. Meetings Meeting at the site of a virtual accident in Second Life. Meetings are one of the ways in which organizations share knowledge and are where co-workers learn about organizational functions and projects from each other. The problem with most organizations is that […]
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