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James OReilly

HUMlab - stream Virtual Macbeth - 0 views

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  • James OReilly on 31 May 09
     
    ,Virtual Macbeth was designed to demonstrate how we might best use the affordances of virtual environments for Education. Shakespeare’s Macbeth reimagined in Second Life provides an adaptive bridge between classic texts and new media technology.
Cathy Arreguin

voyeurism: Co-presence + Dimensionality = Identity-formation - 0 views

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  • Cathy Arreguin on 15 May 09
     
    Pedagogical affordances of VW and SL: Co-presence, identity and persistence. Good article for discussion
James OReilly

Virtual Learning Quality - Mastering ISO 9001 Quality Processes In Virtual Worlds - 0 views

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  • James OReilly on 21 May 09
     
    ISO 9001 implementation for virtual learning & teaching
Scott Kahler

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  • Scott Kahler on 11 Jun 09
     
    Check out the developer preview at Google I/O Google Wave is a new tool for communication and collaboration on the web, coming later this year. Watch the demo video below, sign up for updates and learn more about how to develop with Google Wave.
Steven Hornik

Innovate: Student Perceptions of a Course Taught in Second Life - 0 views

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  • Virtual worlds, as digital learning objects appear to provide a space for constructivist learning at its best, facilitating more student engagement than the simple discussion boards comprising most online courses.
    • Steven Hornik
      Steven Hornik on 02 Jun 09
       
      A virtual world by itself can not be exptected to create engagement and contrasting virtual worlds with discusson boards is apples vs oranges. Each can serve its purpose and each can be engaging if developed an delivered properly, but alas the opposite is also true.
  • that students will become as motivated by virtual worlds as they are by video games.
    • Steven Hornik
      Steven Hornik on 02 Jun 09
       
      I would like to see the citation for video games being inhrently motivating, and motivated in what way? To play or to learn, they are different things.
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  • Most lectures were given in the classroom, so those given in SL, hampered by the slowness of text chat versus face-to-face conversation, suffered by comparison. Many students had to be on campus anyway during scheduled online class activities, leading to situations in which students were text chatting while sitting next to one another in a computer lab.
    • Steven Hornik
      Steven Hornik on 02 Jun 09
       
      This is just a Duh statement, of course students are not going to want to use a virual world platform while they are together in an actual classroom - its contrived and serves no purposed other then the oft mentioned "we hope it motivates the students" but why would it? If you don't use a virual world platform to take advantage of its unique affordances then the outcomes acheived in this study should be expected.
  • understanding the validity and creative procedure for illustrating their papers in a three-dimensional environment
    • Steven Hornik
      Steven Hornik on 02 Jun 09
       
      Again, why use a virtual world for presenting papers in a face2face class?
Steven Hornik

TCNJ Magazine » In Focus June 2009 » Using Second Life, Hu Opens Up a New Wor... - 0 views

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    "They love it," Hu said. "They've said to me several times, 'We should have class within Second Life all the time.'" Perhaps more importantly, she added, "When the learning process is more fun, it is also more engaging for the students."
James OReilly

ThinkBalm publishes business value study « ThinkBalm: Immersive Internet insi... - 0 views

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  • Nearly 30% of survey respondents (19 of 66) said their organization recouped their investment in immersive technologies in less than nine months, once their project(s) launched.
  • The top motivations for investment in immersive technology in 2008 /1Q 2009 were enabling people in disparate locations to spend time together, increased innovation, and cost savings or avoidance.
  • Early implementers are choosing the simplest use cases first. The most common were learning and training (80%, or 53 of 66 respondents focused on this use case) and meetings (76%, or 50 of 66 respondents). Some intend to take on more complex use cases in 2010 or 2011.
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  • Immersive technology won out over a variety of alternatives primarily due to low cost and the increased engagement it delivers. The leading alternatives were Web conferencing and in-person meetings, followed by phone calls.
  • Work-related use of the Immersive Internet is in the early adopter phase. Before it can pass into the early majority phase, practitioners and the technology vendors who serve them must “cross the chasm.” The most common barriers to adoption are target users having inadequate hardware, corporate security restrictions, and getting users interested in the technology.
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