An online school needs a digital campus.
Not for classrooms, but for many of the services
currently offered on a physical campus
A digital campus can look and function much like a physical campus. It can provide some of the services that could be lost in the shift to digital education. This article is explicitly licensed Public Domain (CC0).
Universal campus (Kitely)
- The digital campus described here is hypothetical.
- The elements exist, but maybe not in integrated form.
- Any educational institution could assemble them into a digital campus.
- The entry could be on a web page, where visitors could enter with no planning.
- Web-world on your web page: Bringing OpenSim and web-worlds together
- A web page is much easier to get to than a physical office:
- No driving, no parking, no walking. Just a few seconds on a browser.
- The Digital Teaching Assistant (DTA) for MUVES (virtual worlds): Summary
Where can you get a digital campus?
***********************************Benefits of a digital campus
For the institution
- Promotes the institution as innovator
- Augments online offerings
- Supports increased enrollment without increased space costs.
- Increases the opportunities to interact with parents and alumni.
- Allows the use of digital assistants at negligible cost.
- Creates easy meetings between alumni and students
For the faculty member
- Gets institutional support: Tech help, library services, etc.
- Let the institution handle class registration, campus access.
For the student
- The off-campus student enters a digital campus.
- The digital campus probably looks a a bit like the physical campus.
- A welcome coach (DTA) offers a tour of the digital campus.
- A digital welcome coach can be available any time.
- The digital coach can give answers to common questions.
- The digital coach shows the location of campus amenities:
- Library, student commons, private and group study rooms, employment counselor (a digital with live supervision at office hours).
For the parents
- The parents can also visit the campus, with the student or alone.
- (Remember, this is a free trip taking about 20 seconds.)
- Parents can talk with the faculty, staff, an alumni.
- The school would probably arrange mixers to bring everyone together.
- digital refreshments are not good attractions, but schools produce attractions.
- Music, concerts, dance, theater, edutainment, student products.
- Student-based presentations show what students are doing.
- And give students practice in doing it.
For the alumni
- Sure they could hang out with friends they met in school.
- But they can also network with the faculty, staff, and current students.
- And they can do it easily from a laptop. At work or at home.
- Students will be glad to network with alumni: there may be a job there.
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DTA content pages
DTA basics for beginners
DTA travel for beginners
DTA social for beginners
DTA for projects and inquiry
Other DTA articles
General
- A Digital Teaching Assistant (DTA) in a MUVE (virtual world): What would it do?
- A digital teaching assistant (DTA) in a virtual world. Can it be done?
- Digital coaching is needed for the DTA: Do we have the technology for that?
- Online education, sure. But why a virtual campus? Why in a virtual world (MUVE)?
Development considerations
Possible services, education
- Magnolia gardens of knowledge . A demonstration of introductory training on the parts (of anything)
- Edpuzzle offers DTA features and could serve as a module in Digital Teaching Assistant (DTA)
- We can reduce barriers to educational uptake of virtual worlds. Assessment of the situation
- The DTA as search coach: How does that work? Especially for project-based learning
- The Digital Teaching Assistant fits with the practice of blended learning
- F/Xual Education Services: Occupational Medicine Simulation. A HUD is a Digicoach without personality
- Error based learning in writing. Combine project-based learning with test-based learning. And maybe get a useful product out of it.
- Digicoach can support collaborative homework and study sessions
- Digicoach can support homework in virtual worlds with JIT learning, immediate feedback
- Digicoach for project-management in self-managed teams: (Note: skills to be learned in doing these tasks)
- David Lee - Design Thinking in the Classroom: How-to for project-based learning
New century education
- A professor built an AI teaching assistant for his courses — and it could shape the future of education
- MOOC2019 Digital classrooms in the sky. And how a Digital Teaching Assistant (DTA) could fit in.
- Learn to be a self-starter. Self-managed learning, libraries, learning communities
- Coding and virtual worlds: a marriage made in computers. The DTA could officiate
- Learning Made in Second Life - CNDG
- Schools need 3 levels of edtech--Matt Harris, Ed.D. And how does the Digital Teaching Assistant (DTA) fit in?
- Once you hear lecture about swimming, you never forget what you learned about lectures. Talking is not teaching
- Student-thinking versus breadwinner-thinking versus entrepreneurial thinking: coming of age in school
- Just-In-Time (JIT) learning in virtual schools, maybe with DTA coaching. Language as an example
- Why a reading assignment is like a treasure hunt. And why it is not
- Suppose the real objective in school is to pass multiple-choice tests. Can a digital TA handle test-based learning?
- Immersive Technologies (Heritage Christian Online School)
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- Web-worlds, 3D virtual worlds running in a browser. Summary
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