2014 EDU: MA Education in Virtual Worlds, UWE, University of West England

MA Education in Virtual Worlds

We [UWE] successfully launched our distance learning MA in Education in Virtual Worlds in September 2012. The course offers highly flexible opportunities for study as it takes place in Second Life.

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• MA Education, about the course
• Programme structure
• MA program, overview

• Second Life Location Link. Click to go or drag to the viewer screen: 
• http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Innovation%20at%20UWE/127/226/27

• Masters qualification from a British University can lead to a PhD path.
• UWE knows this is a new century:
• UWE Bristol (University of the West of England) on Google+ 
• learners from all over the world. 
• smart use of space -- small area in high cost Second Life

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Students will be able to explore:

• Curriculum design in virtual worlds
• The psychology of the metaverse; cultural ethics and expectations
• Scripting, building and creating learning structures
• Educational simulations in virtual worlds
• 'Artificial Intelligence', non-player characters, bots etc and their use in education
• Research methods in virtual worlds

The library

Resources for research

• List of Internet encyclopedias
• Top 100 Education Blogs

Instructional methods

• not lecturing
• community of practice 
• discussions
• experiential
• learn by doing
• learn by playing 
• situated learning, 
• role play
• simulations 
• games

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News and Notes

• OSgrid down 
• More news in my blog roll (column on the right)

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Events in the virtual worlds  

How to handle a Hypergrid address 

From any Hypergrid-enabled grid, paste the address into the address bar of Firestorm and press enter. Or paste it into the world map search bar of any viewer, search, and click Teleport when the destination is found. If it doesn't work, don't give up. Try again later.
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Contests and dated calls/invitations

• Storymakers 2014 challenge: cash prizes: Contest closes September 26, 2014

• "Wear Your Goggles to the Goldrush" Launches 9/1/2014

Midtown Arts Museum is launching its first participation storybuild on Monday, 9.1.2014, Wear Your Goggles to the Goldrush. All elements are ready for visitors, explorers and amateur sleuths to plunder. A storybuild mystery is not an event that is attended. Rather clues and story are collected, assembled and written by the participants who journey through it. It is writing via pictures and conversation - - the natural, entertaining and effortless way. Oakes Valley blog. 

Hypergrid address:  grid.kitely.com:8002:Oakes Valley  

• Mad Pea:  New hunt starts now
• The Green Mire II/The Gathering-Prize Preview II

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• Transcending Borders: Launch of UWA Art & Film Challenges with L$1.03 Mil in Prizes

The theme is 'TRANSCENDING BORDERS.' Artists & filmmakers can interpret the theme as they see fit. Whether transcending borders between time and space, past and present, one nation and another, one language and another, a culture or civilization or any other of the innumerable borders that present themselves as we navigate our lives. You the artist... You the machinimatographer...You decide.

Entries Close at Midnight SLT 31st October 2014. Winners will be announced in December 2014.   

UWA Art & Film Challenges 2014 with L$1.03 Mil in Prizes, early entries 

And don't forget the many imagined borders, walls, that we make for ourselves.   Those are the worst kind.--TKR

News, Google and pseudonyms

• Google+ becomes friendly to virtual names and pseudonyms 

Events 

• Happenings on the Hypergrid
• Kitely Events Calendar

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Newcomer Help in Virtual Worlds. 

• UWA offers free online courses to help newcomers start in virtual worlds
• Firestorm Documentation and User Guide (Wiki)
• Beginner's building on the Hypergrid. Primland, the building tutorial game
• UWA offers free online courses to help newcomers start in virtual worlds
• New Citizens Inc
• Table of Contents (Virtual Outworlding)
• Multilingual help: Welcome ports and Google Translate

Education

• Top 10 Tips on How to Use Avatars in eLearning
• How the Second Life basics series can help teachers
• SLeducate: Learn and teach in Second Life

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Video-Machinima in virtual worlds

• New Media Arts, Inc
• SUMMARY: Resources for video production in virtual worlds
• Videos from virtual worlds Summary 
• Hobbies: Doing video/machinima in virtual worlds
• Music Videos from virtual worlds Summary 
• Art videos from the virtual world
• Comedy videos from the Virtual World

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• What do we do in Virtual Worlds? 
• Kitely: low cost virtual worlds.
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• What is Second Life?
• Annotated screen shots made with Jing
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