Teaching a class in a virtual world (MUVE)?
Why you don't want your students to arrive on time.
In a MUVE you want to spread arrivals over time to avoid too heavy a load on the server
The Empty Classroom
What happens in a MUVE when students arrive on time?
- It is not just a line at the door.
- It is a big load on the simulator.
- Check your stats at arrival time.
- (Firestorm will show your stats. Your Kitely web page will show your stats.)
- You will get obvious lag if lots of people arrive at the same time.
- The load can be enough to crash the simulator.
- You want to spread the arrivals over time.
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********************************What would make students want to arrive early?
Leading students
- Extra Credit challenges: Talk them over with the instructor.
- Advanced web links
- Career advice/links
- Help in developing skills for self-managed learning
- Independent learning resources in the MUVE
- Invitation to suggest activities for early student group
- Personal attention from the instructor
Trailing students
- Extra help on how to study.
- Opportunity to discuss problems with instructor.
- Invitation to propose alternative assignments.
- Extra practice on study and learning skills.
Possible self-managed online activities
- Online libraries as centers for adult instruction. Self-managed learning.
- Self-managed learning and the role of the online library.
- The long and short of learning: Web worlds fit microlearning. Thinking out of the box
- Challenge-based education and self-managed learning: on the same team!
- A school for self-study in virtual worlds. We call that a library
- Reinventing school for the Tech Generations. Virtual libraries on the web.
- Teacher's web assistant brings museums, aquariums, web cams virtual worlds, libraries, games, and challenges
- Web-worlds, 3D virtual worlds running in a browser. Summary
- Visit Stonehenge in your browser: Virtual field trip
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