Online education, sure.
But why a virtual campus?
Why in a virtual world (MUVE)?
Updated 10/19/2019
A campus is much more than a collection of classes. Any physical campus offers a number added services. Here I consider which of those services should be carried to the virtual campus as we move from virtual classrooms to complete educational institutions in the digital world. This article is explicitly licensed licensed Public Domain (CC0).
Universal campus (Kitely)
- MUVE (virtual world)
- Ok archtecture. Beginning architects can design and build in a virtual world.
- And landscaping. Make a model of the finished product.
- Rapid prototyping for an entertainment park, Mike Mchugh
- Architecture: Virtual Library of Birmingham
- A Digital Teaching Assistant (DTA) in MUVE (virtual world): What would it do?
- A digital teaching assistant (DTA) in a virtual world. Can it be done?
- Digicoach can support homework in virtual worlds with JIT learning, immediate feedback
- The Digital Teaching Assistant (DTA) for MUVES (virtual worlds): Summary
What does a campus offer beyond classrooms?
- Commons area for students to study together or socialize
- School library (and librarians to help people find what the need)
- Conference rooms where students can work together on projects.
- Laboratories (where students often work together).
- Sponsored educational events
- Sponsored cultural events
- Sponsored competitive events
- Sponsored intellectual events
- Dormitories for students living on campus
- In loco parentis
- A virtual campus should offer some of these things.
- Details after the break
- This article will be updated as other articles are published.
What would a virtual campus offer beyond classrooms?
- Commons area for students to study together or socialize
- School bulletin board
- School library
- Conference rooms where students can work together on projects.
- Simulated laboratories (these don't blow up).
- An alumni center where current students could meet with alumni.
- A student counselling center where students can seek help on educational or personal problems.
- Job center where students could look for jobs and internships.
- A Digital Teaching Assistant (DTA) in MUVE (virtual world): What would it do?
Commons area
- Physical schools often have commons areas
- High school commons area (Search)
- College commons area
- The commons area should be open area so people can see who is present.
- The area should have tables that are isolated in sound and local IM.
School bulletin board
- An online bulletin board would be much like an online forum.
- It is open for posting by students, faculty, and alumni.
- It supports sort and search. Users can create persistent searches.
- It uses categories such as subject, events, jobs open, etc.
- Selected categories of events may be posted in suitable places.
School library
- Libraries in the virtual world could provide help for virtual classes and virtual campuses: the trident model
- A digital campus needs a digital library. What would be in a digital library?
- Metaverse Libraries: Communities as Resources Part 1
- Metaverse Libraries: Communities as Resources Part 2
- Reinventing school for the Tech Generations. Virtual libraries on the web.
- Educational communities of the virtual worlds, a database by the Community Virtual Library
- Virtual Libraries and digital smarts February edition
- Librarians Share Virtual Communities as Resources--Valerie Hill
- The Online Campus needs a library, as did those old campuses with the expensive buildings
- A community as a library resource? The secret source of the web
- International immersive learning project by the Community Virtual Library: Medieval Quest
- Literature as oral tradition. Don Quixote, Baker street. Seanchai Library 8th anniversary
- Virtual World Interest Group visits Cybalounge
- Libraries and museums will combine in virtual worlds
- Virtual Worlds: Professional Education and Library Resources. Summary
- Rockcliffe University Consortium on Avacon grid: Central library and digital smarts
- Virtual Library and Tacoma Little Theatre Continue Partnership
Conference rooms
- For project meetings in project-based learning
- Virtual worlds can host challenge-based learning
- Project-based education could produce useful results for the learner and for society
- Educator's challenge: Provide planning template(s) for project-based learning
- Learn by challenge in virtual worlds: Games, projects, Maker Model
- Problems are interesting puzzles. If you are ready. Otherwise they are stoppers
- Challenge-based education and self-managed learning: on the same team!
- Spanish Language Learning Island. Situated learning, immersive learning
- Students Virtual Showcase---poster session or presentation for the new century
- MALET showcase: Making and Tinkering – Stop Motion Animation Project: By: Marian Read
- MALET Virtual Showcase: The Space Project: STEM work with legos and coding in elementary school. By: Stacie Stewart
- Massacre at Wounded Knee, an example of project-based learning in virtual worlds
- Conference rooms should have DTA (Digicoach) support.
Simulated laboratories
- Scripts can be developed to practice elaborate procedures
- IMA: Metaverse Yard Sale / Satyr Farm Exhibit with IMA extensions and a riding ranch
- Virtual worlds can be a site for robotics development:
- Competitive sports for online schools. Robotics, search-masters, DTA-Turing challenges
Alumni center
- Gives alumni posting access to the School Bulletin Board
- May offer rooms for alumni to confer with faculty or students.
- Gives the alumnus a way to update professional portfolio.
- May help maintain alumni loyalty to the school.
Student counselling center
- Where students can seek help on educational or personal problems.
- Student Counselling Center needs office hours by qualified professionals.
- To comply with HIPAA requirements, the Counselling Center may have to be in a web-world.
Job Center
- Displays selected posts from the jobs section of the school billboard.
- Offers links to selected reading on seeking employment.
- Provides private offices where students can meet with recruiters.
- The Job Center could be of special interest to recruiters for online jobs.
- Online jobs are not limited to local.
Student portfolio center
- Project-based learning creates a portfolio, not just a transcript
- For students who permit it, portfolios are displayed here.
- Portfolios are accessible and searchable by the public.
- Students and alumni can modify their portfolios.
- Students Virtual Showcase---poster session or presentation for the new century
- MALET showcase: Making and Tinkering – Stop Motion Animation Project: By: Marian Read
- MALET Virtual Showcase: The Space Project: STEM work with legos and coding in elementary school. By: Stacie Stewart
- Massacre at Wounded Knee, an example of project-based learning in virtual worlds
Installed virtual worlds and web-worlds
- A virtual campus may need to use both installed words and web-worlds.
- Installed virtual worlds support much more space and allow extensive scripting.
- Web-worlds run in a browser, like any web page, but are not as easy to program.
Related
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Visit me on the web
- Drop by my web offices Weekdays: 12:-12:30 pm 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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