OSCC19 DESIGN CHALLENGES
IN YOUTH-SAFE VR ENVIRONMENTS
Eileen O'Connor discusses the challenges and resources met in offering virtual world education to students in the K-12 range.
- The input form mentioned in the talk
- Mentioned: OSCC19 EUREKA WORLD AN ECOSYSTEM FOR LEARNING. School campuses in virtual worlds: teachers, students, mentors, developers.
- The Digital Teaching Assistant (DTA) for MUVES (virtual worlds): Summary
- Pre-developed VR environments for youth, in K-12 schools and in other youth-oriented organizations
- Adaptable environments to ease development while leaving flexibility.
- In OpenSim, complete regions can be saved as OAR files, sent in email, and loaded onto a different grid.
- Kitely’s Organizations (Virtual Private Grids)
- Youth-safe interface and a practical registration system
- Can you put a high school next to a porno place? Not even in a virtual world. But there are solutions
- Gathering educational support in OpenSimulator. Scenegate, RezMela™, Kitely Organizations, DTA
- MALET, Empire State College (SUNY)
Other affordances
- Seven major educational affordances from virtual worlds and how they can work together
- You don't have to build to create scenes in OpenSimulator. RezMela can do most of the building for you
- Affordances of virtual worlds can make a more effective presentation. From OpenSim Community Conference (OSCC)
- The Digital Teaching Assistant (DTA) for MUVES (virtual worlds): Summary
Other established schools
- Immersive Technologies (Heritage Christian Online School)
- Metaverse School GmbH @ Berlin Change Days 2019. Web classes in a German university
Kitely Organizations
- Kitely official statement: Introducing Organizations (Virtual Grids)
- Kitely offers themed "grids". Independent websites using Kitely tech but managed by an organization
- Kitely announces virtual campuses for schools (and other organizations): Virtual worlders would say private grids.
- Themed grids. A grid for each school, community, or business. A fit with HG and VPGs
- A campus grid for a graduate school. An independent grid using the Kitely organization system
- Bring the virtual campus into the school: Kitely custom viewer login page
- Can you put a high school next to a porno place? Not even in a virtual world. But there are solutions
- Kitely will offer private grids with dedicated login pages
- Why I specifically recommend Kitely for hosting a virtual campus (MUVE)
Related
- Language learning: What could a virtual (online) campus offer?
- The online campus: Your campus on the internet. Meet fellow students, work with them
- An online school needs a digital campus. Not just for classrooms, but for many of the services currently offered on a physical campus
- A campus grid for a graduate school. An independent grid using the Kitely organization system
- The virtual online campus: Can a grid handle the load of students?
- We can bring schools into OpenSim. Not just people. Whole campuses full of people.
- Why I specifically recommend Kitely for hosting a virtual campus (MUVE)
- Educational resources for virtual worlds: Free. Universal Campus
- Online education, sure. But why a virtual campus? Why in a virtual world (MUVE)?
- Why an OpenSimulator Virtual Campus? REDgrid, of Ball State University.
- Digital Literacy: Matt Harris Vlog. Connections to the DTA and the virtual campus
- Education in Virtual Worlds. Summary
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