#VWEDU Education in
Virtual Worlds Summary
Updated 10/5/2020
A collection of articles about education in virtual worlds.
The empty classroom
- Era of the entrepreneurial educator. The unbundling of education opens the gate for entrepreneurs.
- Schools, colleges, and universities with classes in user-managed virtual places.
- International, multicultural college MOOC in Kitely: Jews/Arabs/secular/religious students work together in classes
- Starting to teach online? All the tools you need in one place. And a digital classroom in a browser. Demo seminar April 25
- MUVE, the Future of e-Learning: Building a Virtual Learning World (From IEEE)
- A campus on the internet. A front office on the web. A school on a laptop
- No quarantine online. Groups can meet in web-worlds with no preparation. Talk, exchange ideas, exchange documents. Exchange almost anything but germs.
- OSCC19 EUREKA WORLD AN ECOSYSTEM FOR LEARNING. School campuses in virtual worlds: teachers, students, mentors, developers.
- The Digital Teaching Assistant (DTA) for MUVES (virtual worlds): Summary
- Web-worlds, 3D virtual worlds running in a browser. Summary
- Education-related articles in this blog (search)
- Virtual worlds as a practice field
- Aggregators
- Builds, museums, libraries
- Conferences, meetings, communities
- Instruction and training
- Gamification
- Tools
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Creativity
- Black lives matter: Video from the digital world. #blacklivesmatter
- "The Superhero's Journey Digital Storytelling: Project with Zinnia Zauber/Professor Renne Emiko Brock at Peninsula College Field Trip Part 1"
- Symbolic Modeling as a creative process. In a user buildable digital place you do it without clay, paper, or paint. And with people from around the world
- We are wired to innovate. Do schools teach creativity?
- Teaching creativity at the university, Ken Robinson
- Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity?
- Technology and the democratization of creativity
Digital teaching assistant
Scenegate viewer
- SceneGate for OpenSimulator: the Market button, grid money notice and button, and find friends online
- SceneGate improvements: Starting, voice, vision, performance, grid manager, button groups
- The SceneGate Viewer open beta: Rationale, documentation, support, roadmap
- OSCC19 SCENEGATE VIEWER--Thales group and IMA. For OpenSimulator and other digital scene creators.
- IMA and Thales work towards improved voice in OpenSim (SceneGate), including security, accessibility, and features
- SceneGate: updating the straw-man model for education
The entrepreneurial educator
Getting started in virtual worlds
Web-worlds, 3D in a browser
- A workgroup at work in a digital place. We travel the web. Less travel time, more work time. What workgroup work is not talk?
- Can you put a high school next to a porno place? Not even in a virtual world. But there are solutions
- Slide Presentation Tool in 3DWebWorldz.com
- Cybalounge web classroom (model). Any instructor could have a classroom to modify as needed
- CybaLOUNGE: credentials: Batch-Registration for Students
- Instachat in 3DWebWorldz: Text quickly presented on screen
- 3DWebWorldz: Web integration and how to use it
- Classroom in a browser. Walk in, walk around, interact, char, have a conversation. Your classroom is wherever you are
- Quests and quizzes, two major elements of instruction, are added features of 3DWebWorldz
- INP- tour of a web-based interface to virtual worlds
- The developing writer's workshop in 3DWebWorldz: Video conversations
- VWMOOC18 August 29th A Visit to A Web-based Virtual World
- How to put 3D on your website
- Use social 3D on the web: what you need to know
- Social 3D and all that other stuff (VR, Virtual Worlds, etc)
- The long and short of learning: Web worlds fit microlearning. Thinking out of the box
- Visit Stonehenge in your browser: Virtual field trip
- Web-worlds, 3D virtual worlds running in a browser. Summary
- Teacher's web assistant brings museums, aquariums, web cams virtual worlds, libraries, games, and challenges
- For lectures and presentations, use web-senders in virtual worlds
- Educational communities of virtual worlds, a database by Community Virtual Library
- Learning centers on a browser. A use case for web-worlds as schools, libraries, and museums
- Information/social games for public service web-worlds
- Video visits to virtual worlds on the web: Cybalounge
Students
- "In a digital place, nobody knows what color you are." The power of avatar choice on a digital campus. Appearance and identity
- Triumph trails: The hero's journey. Team-based learning. Students laughing! Portfolio building!
- Learning something? Use your head. Learning Skills
- Beginner's building in OpenSim: Chimp Versus Chair, Prim Sculptor
- The Four Styles of Self Motivation with Gretchen Rubin
- The practical education. Avoid student debt. Go to college on the internet.
- NERDs of the north: Nerd is a four-letter word with a six-figure salary. Kitely virtual site
- Graduate Student Collaborative. Online students need not feel isolated here!
- Why high schools teach tolerance for boredom and what they can do about it
- VIB (browser-viewer) imaginary use case: Education
- Learning how to learn | Barbara Oakley | TEDxOaklandUniversity
- How to start in a virtual world, the video: Now see it on your browser
- Basics: UWA offers free online courses to help newcomers start in virtual worlds
- Building: Beginner's building on Hypergrid. Primland, building tutorial game
Educators
- The MALET program and virtual (digital) residency
- A campus grid for a graduate school. An independent grid using the Kitely organization system
- The virtual online campus: Can a grid handle the load of students?
- Education builds skills. Skills are assets. Assets are marketable if you can show them. Your portfolio shows your skills
- Educator communities for the virtual worlds
- Localized Learning Communities in Virtual Worlds--Thanks to Beth Ghostraven
- Teachers don't need to learn how to build in virtual worlds to teach there
- What would I want in a MUVE if I were using it to teach a class?
- Teaching a class in a MUVE)? Why you don't want students to arrive on time
- The Hero's Journey and Guided Pathways--Peninsula College
- Empire State College (ESC) Virtual Residency (applied practice)
- Reinventing school for the Tech Generations. Virtual libraries on the web
- Immersive theater in OpenSim: Scenes from Antony and Cleopatra
- CybaLounge: Educator project: aGAP
- Are educators leaving virtual worlds? Or just going to lower cost places?
- How I use CoSpaces to help students create their dreams
- Virtual Shakespeare? No, real stage plays in a virtual world
- Children's reading in the age of technology
- The community for education in the Metaverse
- Georgia students discuss first OpenSim project
- RSA Animate - Changing Education Paradigms
- Present information in ways that help people use it
- Learning how to learn | Barbara Oakley | TEDxOaklandUniversity
- New way to organize. About nursing. What if it were about education?
- Virtual teaching resources (UWA)
Non-profits
- Volunteer Virtual Classroom Speaker. A potential use for virtual worlds? Let's think about it.
- Non profits: Free outworld advertising from Google: Google Ad Grants
Schools and courses
- Think like a coder. Think like a planner. Think like digital teaching assistant (DTA). Computational thinking is really concrete planning.
- A campus on the internet. A front office on the web. A school on a laptop
- No quarantine online. Groups can meet in web-worlds with no preparation. Talk, exchange ideas, exchange documents. Exchange almost anything but germs.
- The MALET program and virtual (digital) residency
- Can virtual worlds meet network security requirements? Some can and some still have problems.
- A campus grid for a graduate school. An independent grid using the Kitely organization system
- The virtual online campus: Can a grid handle the load of students?
- Bring the virtual campus into the school: Kitely custom viewer login page
- We can bring schools into OpenSim. Not just people. Whole campuses full of people
- The online campus: Your campus on the internet. Meet fellow students, work with them
- Kitely offers themed "grids". Independent websites using Kitely tech but managed by an organization
- Rockcliffe University Consortium on Avacon grid: open education
- Rockcliffe impact, the first 10 years: the public impact
- CNDG’s virtual chemistry labs at Florida State University
- Studio X, the future of Air Force education. Integrated Learning Environment with virtual world capabilities
- Heritage Christian Online School
- HCOS Brochure
- Georgia students discuss first OpenSim project
- BioTown, an active Biology curriculum build
- Learning how to learn | Barbara Oakley
- Hypergrid education community: Finding instruction on offer
- Hypergrid Academy announces its first classes
- Hypergrid University: a preliminary model
- Think like a coder. Think like a planner. Think like digital teaching assistant (DTA). Computational thinking is really concrete planning.
- A campus on the internet. A front office on the web. A school on a laptop
- No quarantine online. Groups can meet in web-worlds with no preparation. Talk, exchange ideas, exchange documents. Exchange almost anything but germs.
- The MALET program and virtual (digital) residency
- Can virtual worlds meet network security requirements? Some can and some still have problems.
- A campus grid for a graduate school. An independent grid using the Kitely organization system
- The virtual online campus: Can a grid handle the load of students?
- Bring the virtual campus into the school: Kitely custom viewer login page
- We can bring schools into OpenSim. Not just people. Whole campuses full of people
- The online campus: Your campus on the internet. Meet fellow students, work with them
- Kitely offers themed "grids". Independent websites using Kitely tech but managed by an organization
- Rockcliffe University Consortium on Avacon grid: open education
- Rockcliffe impact, the first 10 years: the public impact
- CNDG’s virtual chemistry labs at Florida State University
- Studio X, the future of Air Force education. Integrated Learning Environment with virtual world capabilities
- Heritage Christian Online School
- HCOS Brochure
- Georgia students discuss first OpenSim project
- BioTown, an active Biology curriculum build
- Learning how to learn | Barbara Oakley
- Hypergrid education community: Finding instruction on offer
- Hypergrid Academy announces its first classes
- Hypergrid University: a preliminary model
Challenge-based education
- Digicoach for project-management in self-managed teams: (Note: skills to be learned in doing these tasks)
- Computational thinking or how to get along with computers
- The great race, Coopersville: Hot air balloons and the Wright Flyer
- Problems are interesting puzzles. If you are ready. Otherwise they are stoppers
- Project-based education could produce useful results for learner and society
- Why a reading assignment is like a treasure hunt. And why it is not.
- Educator's challenge: Provide planning template(s) for project-based learning
- Challenge: Hero's Journey. Game. Learning. Schools. Can you connect these?
- Challenge-based education and self-managed learning: on the same team!
- Massacre at Wounded Knee, example of project-based learning in virtual worlds
- Social games for social VR: A virtual match game
- Learn by challenge in virtual worlds: Games, projects, Maker Model
- Virtual worlds can host challenge-based learning
- CoSpaces: Virtual worlds for grade school. Maker movement again
- The Maker Movement and the potential of virtual worlds
Credentials
Access/handicaps
- Educators in virtual worlds must deal with it in the viewer. Fonts and text-to-speech can help
- Disabled? Not in virtual worlds. Lonely? Not in virtual worlds. Your avatar has superpowers!
Self-managed learning
- Teaching with hypertext. JIT learning. Adaptive learning. Active learning
- Computational thinking or how to get along with computers
- The Inside Scoop on Successful Teams with Daniel Coyle
- Rockcliffe University Consortium on Avacon grid: Central library/digital smarts
- The gamification of learning how to learn. Learn what you can do
- The 7 famous habits of Steven Covey explained in 6 minutes of video
- The key to remembering is to pay attention to what you want to remember. Can you remember that?
- Digital Learning with Simon Nelson. Social, collaborative, self-managed learning
- A community as a library resource? The secret source of the web
- Librarians Share Virtual Communities as Resources--Valerie Hill
- Learning objectives are for the learners. Not just for instructional designers
Gamification and quests
- Asset-oriented learning. Goal-directed learning. Build your professional portfolio Reputation as an asset.
- Any learning task in school is a game if you want it to be. Turn study into a game
- Edpuzzle offers DTA features and could serve as a module in Digital Teaching Assistant (DTA)
- Competitive sports for online schools. Robotics, search-masters, DTA-Turing challenges
- Problems are interesting puzzles. If you are ready. Otherwise they are stoppers
- The power of the quest for learning. Turn learning into a quest.
- The CAMELOT-GUINEVERE project: Learning language in virtual worlds
- VWBPE immersive events, The Queen’s Heroes in the Five Kingdoms #vwbpe19chat
- Rockville: Life on the Margin, an experience roleplay game
- English as a Second Language: ESOL, EFLTreasure hunt.
- Tutorial: Building in 3DWebworldz: Leaving notes around. Writer's workshop
- ADHD Tools for Adults & Kids: Mind Mapping to Success
- Metaverse Yard Sale / Satyr Farm Exhibit with IMA extensions and a riding ranch
- Educational games in virtual worlds. Educator's business model
- Problems and the seven gates to solving them. Like a game. Coincidence? Or something else?
- The Maker Movement and the potential of virtual worlds
- Digital citizenship: "Be Internet Awesome " Awesome needs public demonstration
- Guitar Master Playable Game & song maker for virtual worlds
- If they made games like the educational system, would anybody play?
- Learning objectives are for the learners. Not just for instructional designers
- Literacy game in virtual worlds. The Mythical World of Hīnātore
- Educational games in virtual worlds
- Puzzle pictures: Party game? Educational game? Mastery quiz? Quest?
- Patterns and Journeys in Quest-Based Learning
- Learning games in retail management, leadership and coaching at TELUS
- 9 Techniques For Online Educators To Gamify Their Digital Classrooms
- The University of Idaho and the game of education
- Why games are better than classes. How Success Affects Brain Chemistry
- Games in virtual worlds. Summary
- Edugaming and the BSG project. Game design, content creators for 3D
- Gamification as Discipline for Instructional Design
- The Silent Peacock returns: Room 326
- Serious Games Award Entries Due May 1
- Games: Play Doctor
- Gamification! Educational Puzzle
Knowledge-based learning
Educational Sites
- Kitely for educators: A virtual campus, educational places, educational products
- Themed grids/MUVEs focus on what the customer wants
- Communities online in 3D. Meet the MUVErs
VIBE--Virtual Islands for Better Education
- Why an OpenSimulator Virtual Campus? REDgrid, of Ball State University
- VIBE: Virtual Islands for Better Education: Features for educators
Kitely
- International, multicultural college MOOC in Kitely: Jews/Arabs/secular/religious students work together in classes
- We can bring schools into OpenSim. Not just people. Whole campuses full of people
- Free Freebies by Graham Mills
- Education-related resources in Kitely. Of interest educators using the new Kitely VPGs
- Themed grids. A grid for each school, community, or business
- Kitely will offer private grids with dedicated login pages
- Kitely adds features to help you improve the performance of your virtual world
- History month in Kitely
- History Hub in Kitely: The age of steam begins: Liverpool-Manchester line
- Kitely History month, Week 2, Medieval age
- Hobo Reserved Sandbox on Kitely
- History Month in August on the virtual world of Kitely. Autodocent on call
- Kitely Boosts services for business. Traffic reports
- Don't mess up your public world. Make a copy and mess that up. Kitely features
- Kitely history month. The henge and the necropolis
- Find friends fast when you start in Kitely-- use the login page
- The Hypergrid work in progress (WIP) show, March meeting on Cookie II
- Vector's Vortex by Karima Hoisan. Installation art in Kitely
- Plan for the HG eventorator
- The Hudson Line. Surreal trip from Tarrytown to Manhattan
- The HG BeatThis List. Kitely Market. One stop shopping for the virtual worlds
- Freebie places and sandboxes in Kitely search
- Backup. How well is Kitely protecting our data?
- Kitely now fills the search panels on the viewer. Events, places, and classifieds benefit
- The International Spaceflight Museum in Kitely
- All my boats. Installation art, poetic art by Karima Hoisan
- History Hub in Kitely: South Quayside: The rise of heavier-than-air flight
- The Lost World of Kayaker Magic
Virtual worlds as a practice field
- Case study in support of a course on process plant safety. Video made safely and at low cost in a user-built virtual world
- Heavy industry: Big equipment: Operator errors can be costly and dangerous. Simulation offers safe learning. And for teams, too.
- How would you teach interpersonal skills online? Social VR, DTA, videos, behavior modelling, critical incidents technique.
- Virtual Laboratory Training and Career Center: Virus model
- International, multicultural college MOOC in Kitely: Jews/Arabs/secular/religious students work together in classes
- OSCC19 TAKING STOCK OF PROVEN AND NEW EDUCATIONAL SIMULATION USE CASES
- Student-thinking versus breadwinner-thinking versus entrepreneurial thinking: coming of age in school
- Writer's workshops in the virtual worlds (MUVEs). Some as near as your browser. Summary
- Seanchai WestWorld: a place for storytellers. Can I find a story here?
- Writers of Greyville: Story seeds: The last werewolf of Blanken, part 3
- Teaching Video Production Skills in a 3D Virtual Environment (Master's thesis)
- Working together apart: Collaboration and teamwork in virtual worlds
- At Spanish Language Learning at Escape--El Dia de Los Muertos
- Presentation of Whole Brain Health Activities on Inspiration Island (Second Life)
- Ever heard of writer's block in role-play? Role-play in virtual worlds as practice writing
- Life is your talents discovered. Or undiscovered. Your choice
- GeoQ: Game Based Training Tool For First Responders
- Life's Little Lessons From Virtual Worlds
- Gaming as training. Training as gaming. Don't write it, put it in the action!
- Science reports and advocacy. Ball State University honors projects
- RezMela in Kitely: Simulations for disaster response training
- Etopia Island - Etopia EcoCommunities - Sustainable Living
- Teaching as a learning mechanism
- Second Life machinima used in driving training
- Virtual Worlds: A practice field for social media and public relations people
- Training, emergency scenarios, clinical content, teamwork, in a virtual world
- Remote collaboration: methods
- Winter safety game, serious games
- Group Projects: Tools for group meetings: Vocabulary
- First Responder of Second Life
- Virtually a disaster
Aggregators
- Themed grids/MUVEs focus on what the customer wants
- A proposal for a web-world to support nonprofits in virtual worlds
- Virtual Worlds: Professional Education and Library Resources. Summary 2016
- Professional Library/Education Groups in Virtual worlds. By Beth Ghostraven
- Community hub for STEM education. Abyss Observatory. HG BeatThis list
Builds, museums, media
- La Fiesta de los Muertos. A video made in a virtual world, with dancing skeletons. And how a DTA could use a video
- A web-based 3D view of the Virginia Museum of Natural History Visit 3DWebWorldz in your browser.
- A Christmas Carol and the times it tells: Dickens project in virtual worlds
- Serenity Island: Sea grotto and crystal caves.
- CVL Hypergird Resource Library Overview. Educational resources on the Hypergrid
- Cars of Coopersville (MUVE) 1905. Go back in time about 110 years. Cars were just developing
- A horse ride through Coopersville (MUVE) 1905. Go back in time a little over 100 years.
- Demonstration oil rig: Conversation with an imaginary TA (Teaching Assistant)
- Pompeii reconstruction: a villa near Pompeii
- Libraries and museums will combine in virtual worlds
- Rockcliffe University Consortium on Avacon grid: Central library/digital smarts
- Metaverse Tour does the Rome of Ferd Fredrix
- Metaverse Tours visited Egypt at Outworldz, Wwanderer got a video
- A visit to ancient Rome
- The International Spaceflight Museum in Kitely
- Dianne Fosse and Virunga in Outworldz: Video from a metaverse tour
- We are building new worlds in the digital metaverse. We don't need to keep the old ways
- Kayaker's World - Panthalassa. T. rex, Velociraptor, etc. A lost world we found on a Metaverse Tour
- EXPLORE The (Virtual) World of John Steinbeck
- Virtual Library and Tacoma Little Theatre Continue Partnership
- HG Safari: A visit to Virunga National Park and the work of Dian Fossey
- Imagination is not the opposite of reality. Imagination is the future of reality
- The history collection in Kitely. A collection of OpenSim virtual worlds with historical relevance
- History month in Kitely, Pirate's Haven
- Kitely history month, week 3. Bohemia story
- Bauhaus Museum LEA2. A museum on your desk
- Own your own Dinosaur, virtually! (Virtual is better than real in this case)
- Seanchai Library has new immersive literary adventures in virtual worlds
- Anyone for dinosaurs? Hunt them, study them, make movies of them...
- Time Travel. The Drax Files: [Episode 33: Luxembourg 1867]
- A dark place of dark deeds. Whitechapel, 1888
- Micrographia in the virtual world. A museum on your desk
- Murassic Park. Be your own dinosaur
- Public service instruction in virtual worlds: Unofficial 3D ADA Toolkit
- Smithsonian Latin Virtual Museum - Day of the dead-- Dia de los Muertos
- American Museum of Natural History summer camp project, Vesuvius Group
- Bread and Roses Strike, Lawrence, Mass., 1912, interactive course
- Fallingwater, gem of American architecture, at Seanchai Library on Kitely Grid
- The Korean Turtle ship, with work from Arcadia Asylum
- Allegheny Portage Railroad: a virtual time machine (VIBE)
- VSTE Index to Educational Sims
- Educational resources for virtual worlds: Free. Universal Campus
- Virtual Harlem Video, the Cotton Club
- A journey through Museums in Second Life
- Undersea observatory. Pre-fab sim. Free. Displayed on Kitely
- A UWA 3D Creation Challenge: What Makes us Human?
- Tejano Tech. University of Texas at San Antonio
- Art and history at Tejano Tech. University of Texas at San Antonio
- University of Houston, Campus and public exhibits
- Among the cranial nerves. UK with UWA - Anatomy & Biology
- Very virtual short poetry library
- Boyhood home of Johnny Cash, Dyess Colony
- Build your own museum. You can do that in Second Life
- Walk through to learn--museum on your desk
- eXtension Just in Time Parenting
- Kansas to Cairo
Libraries
- OSCC19 VIRTUAL WORLD EDUCATIONAL PROJECTS OVERVIEW AT CVL
- Digital Archival and Preservation of Virtual Worlds. Sponsored by the Community Virtual Library
- Community Virtual Library (CVL) opens in Kitely. A view of the space station and its teleporters
- Libraries in the virtual world could provide help for virtual classes and virtual campuses: the trident model
- The Dickens Project: Seanchai Library
- Seanchai Library Celebrates a Decade of Stories with "Volume 10"
- Rockcliffe University Consortium on Avacon grid: Central library/digital smarts
- The Web Report: Educator Edition: Digital Citizenship (beta)
- Online libraries as centers for adult instruction. Self-managed learning.
- Articles about libraries on this blog
- Metaverse Libraries: Communities as Resources Part 2
- Metaverse Libraries: Communities as Resources Part 1
- THE DICKENS PROJECT 2016 Opens December 10th
- Metaverse Libraries group holds board meeting in Kitely
- Virtual Worlds: Professional Education and Library Resources. Summary 2016
Courses
Science
History
- History Hub in Kitely: South Quayside: The rise of heavier-than-air flight
- History Month in August on the virtual world of Kitely. Autodocent on call
- Kitely history month. The henge and the necropolis
- Kitely history month, Arabian world
- History month in Kitely
- Kitely History month, Week 2, Medieval age
- History month in Kitely. The Vikings in the virtual world
- Kitely History Month. Panagia Paramythia. A role-playing, treasure hunt game
- History Hub in Kitely: The age of steam begins: Liverpool-Manchester line
International
- International, multicultural college MOOC in Kitely: Jews/Arabs/secular/religious students work together in classes
- Spanish Language Learning Island. Situated learning, immersive learning
- Language learning: What could a virtual (online) campus offer?
- How to Format Your eLearning for International Audiences
- Australian Home Lands. Invited article by Genavieve Page, creator/developer
- Language learning in the new century: Reports: a collection of efforts
- Sengoku Japan is set during the "Sengoku era" in feudal times
- Berlin in the 1920s
Teamwork, collaboration
- Social Media for the online Education Community
- The Inside Scoop on Successful Teams with Daniel Coyle
- Remote collaboration: methods in virtual worlds
Writing
Extension
Conferences, meetings, events, connections
- OSCC19 VIRTUAL REALITY VS VIRTUAL WORLDS SMACKDOWN! Not your father's lecture
- Plan for a modern presentation in a digital world. For presenters and inquiry/project-based learning.
- Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education 13th Annual Conference, March 26-28, 2020. A conference on your laptop. Travel time 30 seconds. Travel cost: $0.0
- OSCC19 SCENEGATE VIEWER--Thales group and IMA. For OpenSimulator and other digital scene creators.
- IMA and Thales work towards improved voice in OpenSim (SceneGate), including security, accessibility, and features
- Affordances of virtual worlds can make a more effective presentation. From OpenSim Community Conference (OSCC)
- Virtual Worlds MOOC 2019 Starts on September 1st and continues through September 30th
- VWMOOC19 starts on September 1st. Now seeking presenters: educational activities in virtual worlds
- Virtual Exchange: International competition, grants, fund virtual youth exchange programs
- Eileen O’Connor: Mainstreaming MUVE Learning Colloquium, MALET Program, Empire State College (SUNY)
- Virtual Showcase: The Space Project: STEM work with legos and coding in elementary school. By: Stacie Stewart
- Mainstreaming Virtual World Learning Colloquium: Video summary and suggestions
- Presenting in a virtual world (MUVE). Use the web, use the environment
- MUVE: selected OSCC exhibits
- Mainstreaming Virtual World Learning Colloquium. And some suggestions.
- Educator communities for the virtual worlds
- Virtual Worlds MOOC 2018: Continuing education online
- Web-worlds and a MOOC: update for 2018
- VWMOOC (previously SLMOOC ) Connecting in Virtual Worlds, Communities of Practice
- Rockcliffe Future Present Conference in San Francisco November 8-10, 2018
- Global Education Conference Online: (November 13-16)
- The web show: a magazine from the virtual worlds
- The tech generation: Visit to a web-world. Why a MOOC is better than a conference.
- Preparing a presentation in a virtual world. How to use the web
- Conferences, the web-world version
- Rockcliffe Celebrates Its 10th Anniversary February 10, 6:00 PM SLT!
- Spoken word, Seanchai, Firestorm Gateway, 100 word stories collaboration
- VWBPE16 Videos, Journal of Virtual Studies report and call for papers for Summer 2016
- UWA art 2015 exhibit selections and comments
- The Always Educational Conference. For the education communities of the future.
- Unconventional thinking about conventional conventions in the virtual worlds
- Calendars of some educator events in virtual worlds for posting on a prim
- CyberNetWorlds Part 1: The School. Tech for distance learning
- BIZ:Powered by AvayaLive Engage: Global Financial Markets Forum
- HomeTown Science 3D University of Texas, Medical Branch, Clinical Laboratory Sciences
- Education communities in virtual worlds expand into social media
- ICALT2014 Track 16 Call for papers: Virtual Worlds in Education and Training, July 7-10, 2014
- The Dickens Project, December 13th through 26th
- Cyber Challenge: by John Low, Chief Creative Officer, Carney
- Minerva discussion group on feminism and technology, Sept. 29 - Dec. 8
- Collaboration and leveling up instructional design
- Monthly International Workshop on Science Exhibits (MIWoSE)
- Why Are We Still Learning History From Textbooks?
- 2012 Virtual Worlds Best Practice in Education: Conference Proceedings
- ADHD, The future of education is not the past
Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education (VWBPE)
2020
- VWBPE 2020: Exhibits (2) A conference the easy way 30 seconds to anywhere in virtual worlds
- VWBPE 2020: Exhibits (1) A conference the easy way 30 seconds to anywhere in virtual worlds
- VWBPE 2020 Stellar: Call for Proposals. Where do we go from here? Immersive education
2019
Videos
2018
- Virtual worlds best practices in education: VWBPE 2018: Early exhibits
- VWBPE spreads over March, into April
2017
- 10th Annual Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education. March 29 – April 1, 2017. Call for proposals
2016
- 9th Annual Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education
- 9th Annual Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education 2016 poster sessions (2)
2015
2014
- VWBPE14 attendance stats
- VIDEO: Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education 2014 (VWBPE), Connections
- Videos from VWBPE Conference 2014
- VWBPE A gathering of communities. A celebration of creativity
- VWBPE Virtual Worlds Design. Imaginations in concert.
- Marie interviews Kevin Feenan (SL: Phelan Corrimal) about VWBPE
- Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education (VWBPE) Conference: April 9-13 2014
2013
2012
- EDU: VWBPE Sponsors and Posters (5+summary)
- Virtual pioneers. VWBPE Poster sessions, samples.
- Afganistan Museum. VWBPE poster sessions, sample
- SENIOR PROJECT. VWBPE poster sessions, sample
- Sponsors and Posters at VWBPE
- VWBPE Posters and Sponsors (2)
- Posters and sponsors at VWBPE (3)
2011
2011
Instruction and training
- Teaching with hypertext. JIT learning. Adaptive learning. Active learning
- Virtual Laboratory Training and Career Center: Virus model
- Digicoach can support homework in virtual worlds with JIT learning, immediate feedback
- We can bring schools into OpenSim. Not just people. Whole campuses full of people
- This blog is curated: How to use search to find things. Digital smarts
- Digital smarts. Who should teach it? Internet libraries? Internet museums?
- Educational cartoons for kids: Could you make cartoons in a virtual world?
- Virtual Reality Grocery Shopping: Part 2
- Andy Hargreaves on Teacher-Powered Education
- Virtual epidemiology investigation, Stephen Gasior on REDgrid
- GAME: iCivics: Do I have a right?
- K12 and the Texas Virtual Academy. Can you teach online?
- Learning how to learn | Barbara Oakley
- Teaching how-to in virtual worlds: Compensation models
- Immersive Teaching and Learning Environments. UT at El Paso
- We Must Continue to Learn, be Curious. The mystery of the knowledge gap
- MA Education in Virtual Worlds, UWE, University of West England
- MNPS Virtual School: What is real and what is virtual?
- Top 10 Tips on How to Use Avatars in eLearning
- Stanford University Libraries in a virtual world, installation art
- University of Alabama in Second Life
- 3D Virtual Learning environments for experiential learning
- Virtual Chemistry. The Drax Files: World Makers
- Teaching creative writing in a virtual world: How get the world.
- Agile 3d Atlas
- Agile3d Distributed Agile Study Group
- Second Life machinima used in driving training
- Oregon State University. Dorms in a holodeck
- edX: Courses from leading universities
- Blogging as instruction/information in virtual worlds, summary
- RSA Animate: Ideas for the age of information overload
- Veterinary Medicine Class in Second Life
- Professional development on your desk
- Mexican High School Conducts Class in Second Life
- 2012 Virtual Worlds Best Practice in Education: Conference Proceedings
- Professional development on your desk
Language
- Virtual worlds for learning language. Immersive learning does not have to be expensive. Summary
- Spanish Language Learning Island. Situated learning, immersive learning
- Language learning: What could a virtual (online) campus offer?
- Edutopia 1 and 2: Places for practicing English as a second language
- Language learning in virtual reality. Learn It Town sim: ESL (VWMOOC)
- Hypergrid International Expo (HIE) : Multi-language: Language classes note
- Web-world use case: Conversational spoken English! Or other language
- Language learning in an immersive world. Maybe this is the way to do it.
- Refugees need language instruction. Could virtual worlds help? Advice from the Yesbutters
- Escape to a New Way to Learn Spanish, invited post, James T. Abraham, Ph.D.
- ESL: Interview with a Virtlantean - Jeff
- DRIVE-THROUGH ESL
- Learn English Network Academy: Kitely, Second Life. Free
- English as a second Language. Virtlantis, holodeck
- EduNation: Virtual Worlds for language education
- Second Life International: Focus on nations and Fs
Health
- Virtual Ability, Inc on HealthInfo Island: Displays and exhibits. Nonprofits teach, too. Here is an example in from the digital worlds
- Therapeutic applications in virtual reality
- Avatar therapy 'reduces power of schizophrenia voices'
- Virtual Reality Occupational Therapy: The Introduction
- Weekly interactive blog on aging. Read the blog. Chat with the author
- A monkey controls a robot with its thoughts. Finally.
- HEALTH: Second Life Nursing Simulation
- Medical training: Imperial College London
- Second Health Hospital, Polyclinic
- NewWorld Initiative for Clinician Education
- Veterinary Medicine Class in Second Life
- LiveAbility Home at the Virtual State Fair
- Virtual ability - Disabilities left behind
- Cape Able for people with impaired hearing
Research
- SceneGate: updating the straw-man model for education
- Wanted: a virtual world viewer for education. Straw-man model
- MOSES activity moves to University of Central Florida
- Games help kids fight cancer
- Online courses for professional development or continuing education? A study
- I believe I can fly." UWA 3 Minute Thesis Speech
- Applied Research in Immersive Environments for Learning (ARiEL SIG): conferences and journals
- Environmental Sustainability. Invited Post by Kevin Feenan
- Rockcliffe-ERDEST
Tools, resources, views
- Resources for teaching copyright and fair use. And maybe a few other things
- Rezmela(TM): Set App 4 Creating text posters, producing a whole scene
- A place for people (you) to design gardens. Or other places. No lifting. No digging. Concentrate on placing and seeing the result
- Digicoach can support collaborative homework and study sessions
- Air painting. Doodleing in 3D. Skywriting without an airplane
- A quick and easy way to get videos of performances in MUVEs (virtual worlds)
- CoSpaces: Virtual worlds for grade school. Maker movement again
- Nonprofit web-world message board. What can we do with it?
- Educator commons, freebies, and educators in virtual worlds
- Konk Combat Game Builder, with NPC interactions
- The Global Connectivity Revolution with Parag Khanna
- Hypertext presentation for 3D worlds: Web-walks
- Self-managed learning and the role of the online library
- Voki Free talking head you can bring into a virtual world
- The Lost World of Kayaker Magic
- MMOG/Medical/Hospital/rescue/simulation
- Virtual reality as the ultimate empathy machine
- Educational Resources in OpenSim Grids
- Best grids for educators
- Why We Love the Agile Way of E-learning Project Management
- The Institute for Performance Improvement
- How the Second Life basics series can help teachers
- Decades Festival, a celebration of Historical education
- The RezMela™ approach
- LetsDance - OpenSimulator NPCs and animations
- Tutorials
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- Wish list from educators in virtual worlds, and a few solutions
- Ken Robinson: How to escape education's death valley
- Inworld whiteboards. Sticky notes. Opensim only.
- Learning Objectives Creator
- VIBE: Virtual Islands for Better Education: Features for educators
- MA Education in Virtual Worlds, UWE, University of West England
- 5 Tips to Market Yourself as an eLearning Professional
- 7 Tips To Integrate Storytelling Into Your Next eLearning Course
- UWA offers free online courses to help newcomers start in virtual worlds
- Remote collaboration: methods in virtual worlds
- Rapid development kit for games. Available on the Hypergrid.
- Tweets about @caravanstudios
- Virtual Worlds Education Wiki
- Opensim resources for learning
- Tips for video tutorials and 3D simulations
- Blogging for beginners, demo of blogging for instruction.
- Land in SL costs much less if you time-share. The rez-to-use model
- Use the media in SL: Browser-On-Prim (BOP) Summary
- Flockdraw. Paint and draw in real time
- Groupboard
- Infographic
- Save sim space with a Holodeck
- Remote collaboration: methods
I wish I had seen this sooner, thank you. I think more schools, colleges and universities need to make an effort to use virtual worlds such as Second Life. Learning is so much fun, more easily retained and those facilities that call themselves cutting edge are not if they haven't attempted to start teaching courses in virtual worlds.
ReplyDeleteI think so, too. This is my summary page, carrying links to all the recent articles I publish about education. I keep it up so educators can see what is happening in virtual worlds.
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