Education in VWs

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Comment by Ross McKerlich on June 18, 2009 at 9:36pm

Are you teaching a class in a virtual world?

If so, we would like your students to fill out a quick survey on their learning experience. The online survey is confidential and anonymous and only takes 10 to 15 minutes to complete.

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This is an Athabasca University research project. AU is Canada's open university and has an international reputation in distance education. We are working to develop tools that allow researchers, teachers and students to assess the learning that occurs in formal education courses conducted using Second Life. This particular survey measures community of inquiry (http://www.communitiesofinquiry.com) from a student's perspective.

Suggested Email to students

"Please take 10 or 15 minutes to fill out this online survey about your learning experience in a virtual world. The survey is to be completed anonymously and your answers to this survey will not be shared with teachers or others from your educational institution. The survey is located here:


https://secure3.athabascau.ca/limesurvey/index.php?sid=85416&lang=en

There is an opportunity to win a Digital Flip CamCorder!

Thanks"

Thank you for helping us in this research project. The results of our study will be available for those that ask. If you have any questions about the study or if you want the results when they are available, please contact rossm@athabascau.ca

Regards

Ross McKerlich, MDE

rossm@athabascau.ca

Comment by Paulette Robinson on April 5, 2009 at 5:40pm

Check out the Federal Consortium for Virtual Worlds conference April 23-24. We have a wiki, email list and facebook portal to connect people. The Education/training working group is the largest and most active in the community. Our College is exploring virtual worlds as life long learning tools that can encompass a continuum. Our first project is a community of practice for the government chief financial community.

Comment by Chris Thorne on February 2, 2009 at 11:11pm

Hi, anyone have links to review papers on the benefits of virtual worlds/3D interactive classrooms versus traditional classrooms?

Comment by Steve Cropper on January 23, 2009 at 4:56pm

A new internet TV program launches on February 1st that delves into how people spend their lives online. Life On Line, as the name suggests is about how people are increasingly spending more of their lifetime using the internet .

The TV show is the brain-child of Australian journalist and communications consultant Steve Cropper, who in 2008 was 'Angelico Babii', host of the LATE SHOW on Metaverse-TV (www.metaverse-tv.com) and the creator of My-Metaverse (www.my-metaverse.com) a social network for people involved in the new media arts on the web.

Please visit our viewers' group website at www.life-on-line.ning.com for details and I invite you to join and be part of this new internet TV show.

Spread the word :) Enjoy!

Comment by Mohammad on October 8, 2008 at 4:19am

Hello Every Body!
CALL FOR PAPERS

1st Special Track on
Virtual Worlds for
academic, organizational, and life-long learning (ViWo 2009)

Jordan, Amman, April 23, 2009
http://www.iicm.edu/ViWo2009

In conjunction with
4th International Conference on
Interactive Mobile and Computer Aided Learning (IMCL2009)

Comment by Jenny Grenfell on September 4, 2008 at 7:39am

I have begun to teach in an Arts Education Centre that we have built on Deakin island in Second Life. Getting started, having students ( undergraduate) explore identity through the selection and refining of their avatars has been an interesting experience. Now for the good part, collaborative learning, role playing and simulations, we are planning an in world and real world exhibition of student artworks at the end of the semester

Comment by Jesse Trahan on July 2, 2008 at 7:46am

My employer, Towson University in Maryland (USA) is interested in Second Life as a way to communicate, recruit, meet and teach.

Comment by Moonbeamdance Northmead on June 20, 2008 at 6:21am

Interested in the educational aspects of virtual worlds and its ability to walk hand in hand with librarianship. Glad to be a part of this group now. :-)

Comment by Hanan "VRider" Gazit on June 19, 2008 at 1:54pm

hi, its great 2 join in Edu in VW Group here!
I'll deliver a workshop "Using the Web3D for Higher Education" on Monday, 7th of July 2008.
The workshop will take place at MEITAL, the Inter-University Center for e-Learning (IUCEL), which assists Israeli institutions of higher education, universities and academic colleges in advancing the use of e-learning technologies and creates opportunities for institutional connections and collaboration among academic institutes in Israel.

Suggestions & ideas would be much appriciated. ty!-)

Comment by Mark Puterbaugh on May 26, 2008 at 4:52pm

Are there any Activeworlds Education Universe members in the group? Would like to make connections and see what you're building.

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