The online campus:
Your campus
on the internet
This campus travels the world. It can teach in any language its owner wants. It is open any time students want to meet there. It can meet students in their own homes. The elaborate version requires installing an app. The simple version lives in a browser (Chrome, for example).
Universal campus (Kitely)
A campus is more than classes
- A campus is not just a place where you go to study.
- You meet fellow students, you work with them, you learn from them.
- You develop contacts you may work with in your later career.
- You can take online classes by yourself.
- Can you talk with anyone about what you are learning?
- In the old-style school, you could talk with classmates.
- You could ask them questions, answer questions, study together.
- Can you do that in an online class?
- Maybe not, but you can do it in a virtual campus
What is a virtual campus?
- A virtual campus is a 3D representation of a college campus.
- Students attend via the internet, but it goes beyond online courses.
- Students don't have to learn by themselves.
- They come to classes with other students.
- There are commons rooms for students to meet out of class.
- Students can organize their own clubs, hold their own events.
- They can hold study sessions with other students as they wish.
- They can form fraternities and sororities if the school allows it.
- A virtual campus is more than online classes.
- MUVE update 3/28/2019 VWBPE 2019 April 4-6 (Immersive experiences already started)
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A virtual campus can be elaborate
- As elaborate as the Universal Campus pictured here.
- Kitely offers websites using Kitely tech but managed by a school
- Or a more modest (but more practical) classroom:
- Teaching Spotlight – MySchool3D Campus on 3DWebWorldz
- Cybalounge web classroom (model). Any instructor could have a classroom to modify as needed
A virtual campus can have field trips just a minute away
- Visit Stonehenge in your browser: Virtual field trip
- Let's gather a list of educationally useful places on the hypergrid
A virtual campus offers much lower costs
For the school
- Kitely offers websites using Kitely tech but managed by an organization
- No facilities maintenance, parking lots, campus security, or the rest.
- Just focus on educating the students.
For the students
- The practical education. Avoid student debt. Go to college on the internet
- No housing costs.
- No travel costs.
- No travel time.
- Just focus on developing the skills you need for your goals
For the faculty
- You live where you please.
- You focus on your specialty.
- You teach your specialty at multiple places.
- You can become expert in online support for your specialty.
- Teacher's web assistant brings museums, aquariums, web cams virtual worlds, libraries, games, and challenges
- Online teaching jobs
A virtual campus can integrate with existing school records systems
- New educational term: Batch Registration: for schools in virtual worlds
- Integration with Moodle or other LMS: TBD
A virtual campus could offer extras as in a university
Student self-help
- How to use search
- Can the internet replace the college library?
- How to study a chapter in a textbook
Student professional development
School library (TBD)
- Students can't afford to subscribe to professional journals, but a school can
Student counselling (TBD)
- Vocational counselling
- Personal problems
- Self-study coach
- School nurse or doctor.
Visit a virtual campus on the web
- 3DWebWorldz
- CybaLOUNGE
- You can visit either of these as a guest, without registering.
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Visit me on the web
- Drop by my web offices Weekdays: 12:-12:30 Central time (US)
- Cybalounge and 3DWebWorldz (Orientation room)
- I will be in both places, so you may need to speak to get my attention.
- Web-worlds, 3D virtual worlds running in a browser. Summary
- And we can visit the Writer's Workshop on the Web
- Don't register -- enter as guest.
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- Drop by my web offices Weekdays: 12:-12:30 Central time (US)
- Cybalounge and 3DWebWorldz (Orientation room)
- I will be in both places, so you may need to speak to get my attention.
- Web-worlds, 3D virtual worlds running in a browser. Summary
- And we can visit the Writer's Workshop on the Web
- Don't register -- enter as guest.
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