2020 #VWEDU: The coming of the virtual campus: Online schools need an online campus. "Stanford University Students Flock to a Virtual Campus"

The coming of the virtual campus: 
Online schools need an online campus. 
"Stanford University Students Flock to a Virtual Campus" 

A pandemic moves schools to think about an online campus.  Actually, some were thinking that way before the pandemic.   

Universal campus (Kitely)

• Stanford University Students Flock to a Virtual Campus
• A new digital platform allows students to explore campus and connect in Zoom rooms during the school’s Covid-19 shutdown
• Watch on YouTube
• Club Cardinal

• Virtual campus (Wikipedia)
• Virtual campus (search)
• Virtual Campus (the company)

Advantages of the online campus

• Serve students over a wider area.
• Support adult learners who already hold jobs.
• Increase enrollments without increasing facilities.
• Draw on adjunct faculty from a much wider area.
• Share resources among schools.
• Bring in potential students on field trips
• Use the educational resources of the web.

• Virtual Worlds Teaching Manual. OpenSIm Fest exhibits and merchant areas stay open thru Sept. Virtual Reload grids closing OpenSIm Fest exhibits and merchant areas stay open thru Sept

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The online campus in virtual worlds

The concept

• The coming digital campus. Not just an online class. All the campus resources in managed access Teaching the skills of the new century with the tools of the new century
• A campus on the internet. A front office on the web. A school on a laptop
• An online school needs a digital campus. Not just for classrooms, but for many of the services currently offered on a physical campus
• The virtual online campus: Can a grid handle the load of students?
• Online education, sure. But why a virtual campus? Why in a virtual world (MUVE)?
• The online campus: Your campus on the internet. Meet fellow students, work with them

Pandemic

• Web-worlds as a place to get together in a pandemic. Parents, teachers, students, tweens, teens, museums, field trips.  All at home in web browsers.
• No quarantine online. Groups can meet in web-worlds with no preparation. Talk, exchange ideas, exchange documents. Exchange almost anything but germs.

Management

• What do you do with class time in a digital campus? Surely not live lectures: You can replace those with polished videos. And so can your management
• Classroom discipline in digital worlds. The technology can provide powerful tools.
• How could we staff a digital campus? The MGE method can get an existing faculty comfortable in a digital world
• The coming digital campus. Access management. Public and controlled access. Campus security without campus police.
• New educational term: Batch Registration: for schools and organizations in virtual worlds

Lecture halls

• You could give live lectures on a virtual campus. But why would you?
• Can virtual worlds support large lecture classes? The past is not the future

Classrooms

• What would a virtual campus do with classrooms? They could be a secure home base in a familiar environment.
• The sense of instructor presence in the online classroom. Loneliness not a problem on a virtual campus
• Cybalounge web classroom (model). Any instructor could have a classroom to modify as needed

The library

• A digital campus needs a digital library. What would be in a digital library?
• Libraries in the virtual world could provide help for virtual classes and virtual campuses: the trident model
• The Online Campus needs a library, as did those old campuses with the expensive buildings

The language department

• Language learning in virtual worlds. What the Digital Teaching Assistant could do
• Language learning: What could a virtual (online) campus offer?

The museum next door

• Museums on your lap. Going places in your laptop. An online presence extends the reach of a museum and gives new meaning to the idea of a field trip.

Developments

• International, multicultural college MOOC in Kitely: Jews/Arabs/secular/religious students work together in classes
• CAG University (Turkey) has a virtual campus and teaches a course about virtual worlds there.
• Schools, colleges, and universities with classes in user-managed virtual (digital) places.
• Digital teamwork. Real work in virtual environments. Project-based learning needs project reporting. Here are the videos.
• An interview with Heike Philp about digital HMKW University in Kitely
• OSCC19 EUREKA WORLD AN ECOSYSTEM FOR LEARNING. School campuses in virtual worlds: teachers, students, mentors, developers.
• A campus grid for a graduate school. An independent grid using the Kitely organization system
• CNDG’s virtual chemistry labs at Florida State University

The social campus

• A virtual world is not just 3D. It can have people to talk with and things to interact with
• Social user-built 3D on the web: an extension of your living room, your office, your classroom, or your campus. But this extension reaches into your laptop.

The extended campus

• A field trip to virtual Mars. Jezero Crater. We are the digitals. We can go anywhere.

The extended faculty

• The community of online educational practice in user-built digital environments (MUVEs)
• Educator group visits CybaLOUNGE for a presentation by the developer. CybaLOUNGE: user-managed digital world in a browser.

Support

• Want a digital campus for your school? There's an app for that. Actually several. Here are some on RezMela Apps (Kitely grid)
• Gathering educational support in OpenSimulator. Scenegate, RezMela™, Kitely Organizations, DTA
• Teachers don't need to learn how to build in virtual worlds to teach there
• The Digital Teaching Assistant (DTA) for MUVES (virtual worlds): Summary with JIT learning design

Web-worlds

• A 3d place in your browser. As easy as going to a web page because it is a web page. Live music, writers, videos, meetings, comedy.
• Web-worlds, 3D virtual worlds running in a browser. Summary
• 3DWebWorldz 
• A plan for a field trip to CybaLOUNGE. Getting in is too easy. It would also be quick if I didn't talk so much.

Kitely

• Why I specifically recommend Kitely for hosting a virtual campus (MUVE)
• 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.
• Kitely will offer private grids with dedicated login pages
• Bring the virtual campus into the school: Kitely custom viewer login page

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Visit me on the web

• Drop by my web offices Weekdays: 12:-12:30 pm Central time (US)
• I am available for free consulting on any topic in this blog.
• 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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