2019 EDU: Language learning: What could a virtual (online) campus offer?

Language learning: 
What could a virtual (online) campus offer? 

A school has special advantages for teaching its native language to people who want to learn that language. The old disadvantage used to be that people could only attend that school after expensive travel. Travel on the internet is free and fast.

Universal campus (Kitely)

• A German university would choose its own campus view.
• As would any university anywhere.

Native speakers

• The virtual campus could be provided by a school with the target language.
• If you want to learn German, you could learn it at a German university.
• Talk with German instructors. Socialize with German students.
• Low cost plan: "Study in Germany, live at home"

Contents

• "Local" sights and people
• Viewpoint of the school
• Immersive language learning
• Situated learning
• Social learning (All language is social.)
• Marketing
• First mover advantage
• What is an virtual campus?
• Who can supply a virtual campus?
• Articles in this blog about language learning
• Immersive Technologies (Heritage Christian Online School)
• Search this page:  Ctrl+f opens search bar near the top

• #VWEDU update 6/13/2019 Writers on the MUVEs, Teams for education

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Native speakers

• The virtual campus could be provided by a school with the target language.
• If you want to learn German, you could learn it at a German university.

"Local" sights and people

• In virtual worlds, everywhere is local, but local people are still local
• A university has local students from many parts of the country.
• A university may have several physical instructional locations.

Viewpoint of the school

• Location gives a competitive edge.
• Lots of skilled speakers available at low cost.
• Online the catchment area is the rest of the world.
• A virtual campus can have virtual places from any time or place.

Immersive language learning

• Scholarly articles for immersive language learning
• Immersive language learning

Marketing

• Study in Germany
• Low cost: "Study in Germany, live at home"

What is a virtual campus?

• 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
• Why an OpenSimulator Virtual Campus? REDgrid, of Ball State University.
• The Online Campus needs a library, as did those old campuses with the expensive buildings
• Education in Virtual Worlds. Summary

Who can supply a virtual campus?

Installed virtual places

• Kitely announces virtual campuses for schools (and other organizations): Virtual worlders would say private grids.
• Kitely will offer private grids with dedicated login pages
• Kitely offers themed "grids". Independent websites using Kitely tech but managed by an organization
• Themed grids. A grid for each school, community, or business. A fit with HG and VPGs
• New educational term: Batch Registration: for schools and organizations in virtual worlds

Web-based virtual places

• 3DWebWorldz 
• Metaverse Software (the company)
• 3DWW is social VW. How to start
• CybaLOUNGE
• You can visit either of these as a guest, without registering.
• How to put 3D on your website

Articles in this blog about language learning in MUVEs 

• Web-world use case: Conversational spoken English! Or any other language
• Putting language back into the language arts
• Escape to a New Way to Learn Spanish, invited post by James T. Abraham, Ph.D.
• EduNation: Virtual Worlds for language education
• Language learning in an immersive world. Maybe this is the way to do it.
• Language learning in the new century: Reports: a collection of efforts
• English as a second Language. Virtlantis and the holodeck
• The CAMELOT-GUINEVERE project: Learning language in virtual worlds.
• English as a second Language: ESOL, EFLTreasure hunt. The game of learning!!
• Learn English Network Academy: Kitely, Second Life. Free.
• Education in Virtual Worlds. Summary
• Hypergrid International Expo (HIE) : Multi-language: Language classes note
• At Spanish Language Learning at Escape--El Dia de Los Muertos

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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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