Era of the entrepreneurial educator.
The unbundling of education
opens the gate for entrepreneurs.
Updated 9/12/2021
Virtual worlds in a browser, online campus, Empire State College (SUNY) , digital museums and art galleries, career training, instructional field trips, presentations, training for online work, job market, digital skills
The Empty Classroom
- Unbundling of education
- The unbundling of education. The free market gets a growing share of education. Parents get more control.
- Notes for the entrepreneurial educator.
- If teaching can be done online, do we need those big $$ school buildings?
- Do we need those $$ school bus systems?
- We could use neighborhood learning pods.
- And put that money into educational services.
- Learning pods will need online educational services.
- Collection Highlight: Grant Resources. Video presentation in a virtual world
Contents below
- Virtual worlds in a browser
- Online campus, Empire State College (SUNY)
- Digital museums and art galleries
- Career training
- Instructional field trips
- Presentations
- Conferences
- Project-based learning
- Language learning
- Interpersonal skills
- Digital teaching assistant (DIA)
- Professional learning community (educators)
- Training for online work, job market, digital skills
- Onboarding
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Virtual worlds in a browser
- Metaverse School - a new dimension of education. Classes on the internet. Students working together from home. Education without the buildings.
- Field Trip to a web based virtual world. Travel in a browser. Meet in a laptop. Save time, money and carbon.
- Virtual world education on the web. “Lessons Learned” from a university’s master course held in a web based virtual world environment.
- Yes they exist: Web-worlds, 3D virtual worlds running in a browser. Summary
- 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.
- Developing an interactive storytelling capability in CybaLOUNGE
- No quarantine online. Groups can meet in web-worlds with no preparation. Talk, exchange ideas, exchange documents. Exchange almost anything but germs.
- 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.
Online Campus
- The educational metaverse and online teaching companies. Not your father's textbooks.
- VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS: IS ONE LIFE ENOUGH? Project-based learning in a digital world: Red team. Not just learning about the topic. Digital and presentation skills.
- Security for online education. Can a place be easy to access and still be secure against griefers? That's one reason why we need a digital campus.
- How could we staff a digital campus? The MGE method can get an existing faculty comfortable in a digital world
- A campus on the internet. A front office on the web. A school on a laptop
- OSCC19 EUREKA WORLD AN ECOSYSTEM FOR LEARNING. School campuses in virtual worlds: teachers, students, mentors, developers.
- An online school needs a digital campus. Not just for classrooms, but for many of the services currently offered on a physical campus
- Digital Literacy: Matt Harris Vlog. Connections to the DTA and the virtual campus
- Online education, sure. But why a virtual campus? Why in a virtual world (MUVE)?
- Language learning: What could a virtual (online) campus offer?
- Web-worlds, MOOCs, and online conferences. Learning centers on the web
The online campus: examples
- Ecology in the metaverse .School in a laptop. Student-built places for learning in the metaverse.
- Tomorrow's office. Project-based learning online. Teamwork in a virtual world. Practicing the office of tomorrow.
- Tomorrow's office in regards to the IT industry IOLE. Tomorrow's presentations, too. Preserved for student portfolios.
- Thoughts about Looking for Mr Gelam, a short film An invited article by Chris Mooney-Singh. Immersive learning as time travel
- "Virtual Learning Village" Actually a virtual village for real learning in a collaborative and interactive environment.
- Looking around the campus: Virtual Learning Village
- The social part of the Virtual Learning Village. A lot of learning happens from interacting with other people
- From the Empire State College 3rd annual residency: The opinionator to hold attention. You could even do this in an old wooden classroom
- The coming of the virtual campus: Online schools need an online campus. "Stanford University Students Flock to a Virtual Campus"
The online campus: security
The online campus: library
- Virtual World Education Consortium Connects Learning Communities iLRN 2021. As always, libraries connect people with what they want to know.
- ACRL Virtual World Interest Group visits the wonderland of Alice. Another experience in a virtual world
- Charles Dickens and his Victorian times. The Dickens Project in 3DWebWorldz. English literature and history on the web.
- The function of the online library is the same as library function has always been: Connecting people with their culture.
- The Dickens Project presents the New and the Familiar, beginning December 4
- Online library in 3DWebWorldz Part 1: BC and Medieval: Home school, pod school, self school, online school, writers, readers, book clubs
- The Online Campus needs a library, as did those old campuses with the expensive buildings
- 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 entrepreneurial school. Beyond online classes. The online campus: student rooms, team workrooms, libraries, museums
The online campus: meetings
- Students IN VR present Ryan Schultz. Overview of the Most Important Social VR Platforms. Yes, social!
- Will online work or study reduce creativity and social opportunities? The watercooler effect. The commons area as the online watercooler
- Myth: "Online learning lacks social experience." Here are a few mythbusters. Fact: some widely-used platforms lack social experience.
- Meeting in an online 3D place is not like meeting in a web page. Places hold more than talking heads. Situated learning and social roles.
The online campus: seminars
- Flipped webinar for educators in the metaverse. A distributed conference. Short presentations, followed by focused discussions. With plans for outreach
- Flipped webinar for educators. A distributed conference. Short presentations, followed by focused discussions. With plans for outreach.
- The flipped webinar of virtual worlds, a place for exchanging information. No cost, no reservation. Come as you are. Meet the online educator community.
- The flipped webinar: Discovering online learning. The potential is huge, but you gotta know the territory.
- Planning for the flipped and persistent webinar. Guided by the participants. Informed by a panel. Organized by 3DWebWorldz
- The flipped webinar: a strawman plan for the online Professional Learning Community (PLC)
The online PLC
- Multiverse Masters, Gamification Simulation ideas. Desktop VR, no headset needed
- An expertise database for an online PLC (Professional Learning Community) . Online makes a big community. Big needs a database
- Organizing our online PLC. Virtual Worlds Education Consortium (VWEC). Affiliated groups, wider networking and knowledge sharing
- Professional Learning Community. Online is closer than next door. And don't underestimate the flat web.
- OPENSIMULATOR COMMUNITY VIRTUAL CONFERENCE: December 5-6, 2020. Presentations Dec.5 on education in OpenSim
- How to get Immersed in online virtual worlds. A visit to the Community Virtual Library (CVL). The online PLC of educators in virtual worlds.
- An online meeting about online teaching in an online PLC. Plans for teaching in Second Life during the 20-21 academic year.
- PLC=Professional Learning Community
- Catching events in your online PLN. Meetings about online learning. Like webinars except they are free with no registration. More like collaboration than a lecture.
The online campus: online lessons
- Model for many freshman "lecture" classes. Teaching online. Reinventing the teacher career. Teaching is creating conditions in which students learn.
- VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS: IS ONE LIFE ENOUGH? Project-based learning in a digital world: Closing comments on the presentation. Digital and presentation skills.
- "Coding" can teach kids strategic and critical thinking, problem-solving, collaborative teamwork, systems thinking, and creative self expression.
- Pre-made online lessons
The online campus: employment office
The online campus: affordances
The online campus: features
The online campus: technical
- Build an animated Object in Cybalounge I Metaverse School. Some entrepreneurial teachers will build their own instructional spaces
- Guided 30 Minute Tour. Just Sit on The Black Horse Ahead of You. How could educators or marketers use this model?
- A guided tour of the campus? A guided tour of an instructional museum? And the horse could talk if you want.
- The virtual online campus: Can a grid handle the load of students?
- Why I specifically recommend Kitely for hosting a virtual campus (MUVE)
- A campus grid for a graduate school. An independent grid using the Kitely organization system
- Want a digital campus for your school? There's an app for that. Actually several. Here are some on RezMela Apps (Kitely grid)
The online campus: cost
- Micro-schooling in the neighborhood and schooling online. What do classrooms cost?
- Educational facilities:costs. Cost per square foot. Cost per student. Physical versus virtual. The savings could go into educational services
The online campus: credentials, badges
- Digital Badge Program to Recognize Language Proficiency. The badges are coming.
- A Guide to Stackable MOOC Credentials
Empire State College (SUNY)
- Any learning task in school is a game if you want it to be. Turn study into a game
- The MALET program and virtual (digital) residency
- MALET Academic Virtual Showcase, Fall 2019. Graduate Student capstone reports, MALET Empire State College (SUNY)
- Eileen O’Connor: Mainstreaming MUVE Learning Colloquium, MALET Program, Empire State College (SUNY)
- MALET showcase: Microscope Studies: Portable Microscopes & Smartphones
- Malet Students Virtual Showcase---poster session or presentation for the new century
- Second Annual Immersive Virtual Residency (SUNY--ESC). An online school need not be a lonely place. There are places for people on the internet.
- Institute for New Paradigms. (INP) - An Overview of VR for Educators. What can you do in VR? What can't you do in VR.
Outreach and onboarding
- Outreach to students (K12). Nepris Volunteer Virtual Classroom Speaker: Writing. Many more topics needed.
- Outreach: Contacts. If we want more educators in virtual worlds, we need to focus on outworlders Developing contacts
- Onboarding for teaching and learning in digital worlds. A microcredential (badge) model.
- Student onboarding for the online campus: Treat onboarding as a use case with its own skill set. Use-case analysis. Identify and teach the skills.
- "Virtual Learning Village" Actually a virtual village for real learning in a collaborative and interactive environment.
Digital museums and art galleries
- The Mondrian Puzzle: Abstract Art meets Mathematics and a virtual world
- Museums on your lap. An online presence extends the reach of a museum and gives new meaning to the idea of a field trip.
- The Virtual Peale Museum on your laptop. Disabilities are left behind when you travel on your laptop
- 3DWebWorldz hosts a digital art museum in your browser. Monet, Demuth, Fortier.
- A web-based 3D view of the Virginia Museum of Natural History Visit 3DWebWorldz in your browser.
- 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.
Career training
- Is there life after retirement for educators? I mean for us online educators. Those of us who have learned to work from home. A google search report.
- Can you teach critical thinking online? The detective story model.
- COVID19 Learning Journey Aboard the Amani: a cruise ship operations & management course. In situ learning
- Career exploration: Educational unbundling by the internet
- Career exploration and career training. In virtual worlds, they can use the same facility. No risk, no travel. All on a laptop.
- Residential construction: Signature Safety: Training in digital worlds And comments about unbundling.
- Fall safety (2): Signature Safety: Training in digital worlds
- Project management meeting or teaching in a virtual world. Agile or Kanban: Rezmela Smart blocks can support them. 3 use cases.
- Training in digital worlds: Signature Safety: in the trenches
- Virtual Laboratory Training and Career Center: Networking
- Virtual Laboratory Training and Career Center: BioHazard
- Virtual Laboratory Training and Career Center: Training, SARS testing
- Virtual Laboratory Training and Career Center: Virus model
- Fall safety (1) : Signature Safety: Training and teaching in digital worlds
- Case study in support of a course on process plant safety. Video made safely and at low cost in a user-built virtual world
- F/Xual Education Services: Occupational Medicine Simulation. A HUD is a Digicoach without personality
- David Lee - Design Thinking in the Classroom: How-to for project-based learning
- A place for people (you) to design gardens. Or other places. No lifting. No digging. Concentrate on placing and seeing the result
Instructional field trips
- Cretaceous Park, Virginia (metaverse). School in a laptop. Student-built places for learning in the metaverse.
- 3D Data visualization of Virginia fossils displayed in 3DWebWorldz. Data you can walk into.
- Looking for Mr Gelam by Word Forward. Beach Road at Kampong Gelam, the Malay heritage quarter of Singapore. On the Virtual Beach.
- Educational field trips in the browser. Parental supervision as needed. No travel cost, no travel time, no school responsibility.
- Geology field trip to a tropical island. Introduction to rock types.
- Virtual Laboratory Training and Career Center: BioHazard
- Heavy industry: Big equipment: Operator errors can be costly and dangerous. Simulation offers safe learning. And for teams, too.
- A field trip to virtual Mars. Jezero Crater. We are the digitals. We can go anywhere.
- A field trip to Mars. Jezero Crater. The rover, Perseverance
- A field trip to Mars. Jezero Crater. Even without a pandemic you can't do that. Unless you have a digital side.
- An interview with Heike Philp about digital HMKW University in Kitely
- Edwardian Era: Coopersville. The Titanic. Kitty hawk. Filling stations. Mary Pickford. The Entertainer
- Cars of Coopersville (MUVE) 1905. Go back in time about 110 years. Cars were just developing
- A video capture can turn a field trip into a presentation
Presentations
- An alternative to Powerpoint presentations: Brainstorming, 3Dmind-mapping
- A different kind of lecture. Dickens and the London of his time. You can have a lecture without an auditorium. You can even do without slides.
- Educational presentations in 3D. In the old days, we called them "lectures". But with modern technology, we don't just stand there and talk.
- VWBPE 2020 Keynote: Lessons Learned from the 2020 Educators in VR Conference. Are conferences in digital places viable?
- Presentation in a box: Ethnographic Cultural Exhibits. In a digital world you can handle big boxes
- Not your granddad's literacy. Digital literacy: a presentation in a digital world. So not your grandad's presentation either.
- You could give live lectures on a virtual campus. But why would you?
- Plan for a modern presentation in a digital world. For presenters and inquiry/project-based learning.
- Presentation paradigm for the internet generation
Conferences
- Conferences, conventions, trade shows. Big meetings of any kind. You can do them online. No travel, no risk, no hanky-panky.
- OSCC (OpenSimulator Community Conference) Virtual Learning Village, Eurikaworld, Vesuvius Group, Indiana Unv. , Penn State online campus
- OSCC (OpenSimulator Community Conference) Exhibits: Educational experiences on offer. Experiences? Yes--In virtual worlds students don't just sit quietly and listen.
- OSCC (OpenSimulator Community Conference) exhibits: Rockcliffe University Consortium and the MALET program. SUNY, Empire State College
- VWBPE2021, "Reconnaissance" March 18-20, 2021 Call for proposals: 7 tracks, 5 formats, 3 types.
- VWBPE 2020 Keynote: Lessons Learned from the 2020 Educators in VR Conference. Are conferences in digital places viable?
Project-based learning
- Critical thinking and the secrets of GCFLearnFree.org. Very much needed for project-based learning (PBL).
- Digital literacy: Brainstorming online. Can they teach brainstorming in school? Can teams plan a project without brainstorming? Can you teach creativity?
- Participatory learning in virtual worlds. The project wall for teams For projects and project based learning (PBL) Can you do that online?
- Digital Literacy: Cyberbullying, the Learner Bureau of Investigation (LBI), and Sargent Guru: A strawman plan
- Digital literacy. He did it in Classcraft. Like a detective story. Could you do it better in your favorite virtual world? Are your students the heroes who will solve this problem?
- Project Pals: Online collaborative project-based learning with data and accountability
Language learning
Interpersonal skills
- Learning in role-play: Can you do that online? Yes you can. But you gotta know the territory.
- How would you teach interpersonal skills online? Social VR, DTA, videos, behavior modelling, critical incidents technique.
- International, multicultural college MOOC in Kitely: Jews/Arabs/secular/religious students work together in classes
Digital teacher assistant (DTA)
- DTA Articles in this blog
- Bot (DTA) discussions at Magnolia gardens. Why use bots in virtual worlds?
- Make learning in a virtual world usefully social. Practice collaboration. A DTA as guide on the side.
- "Engaging Students in Goal Setting and Monitoring Progress." How much coaching and monitoring could be provided by a DTA?
- A chatbot wanders the virtual world. His goal was the make friends. But he could play a role: teacher, sidekick, or story character.
- Just-In-Time (JIT) learning in virtual schools, maybe with DTA coaching
- A digital teaching assistant (DTA) in a virtual world. Can it be done?
- The Digital Teaching Assistant (DTA) for MUVES (virtual worlds): Summary
- The DTA as search coach: How does that work? Especially for project-based learning
- DTA and digicoach take on a form to suit the task: Shoulder pet, HUD, NPC, signs in places
- Virtual Teacher's Assistant, an option for entrepreneurial educators: a job for SuperTA
- DTA content pages: The plan: Initial DTA content on the web here. Can be used from here or copied for use elsewhere.
- 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)
Educational entertainment
Professional learning community online
- Outreach: Show the use cases. If we want more educators in virtual worlds, we need to focus on outworlders.
- NICE programme: A MULTI-UNIVERSITY VIRTUAL LEARNING PROGRAMME
- Develop your online professional learning network (OPLN) in virtual worlds. The community in your laptop. Always ready. always handy
- Networking in Virtual Worlds - The CVL Education Network
- The community of online educational practice in user-built digital environments (MUVEs)
- #VWEDU Web accessed learning Communities in Virtual Worlds--Thanks to Beth Ghostraven
- Do we have a professional learning community (PLC) in the virtual worlds (MUVEs)?
- CVL Hypergird Resource Library Overview. Educational resources on the Hypergrid
- Virtual Worlds MOOC 2019 Starts on September 1st and continues through September 30th
- VWMOOC20 starts on September 1st and ends on September 30th. Online instruction for Continuing Education. How to use virtual worlds.
- The virtual worlds (MUVEs) professional learning community. Not something we have to organize. It just is
Training for online work
- Training for online work
- Can schools be preparing students for future work, if working online is not part of the curriculum?
- Teaching with hypertext. JIT learning. Adaptive learning. Active learning
- Breadwinner thinking. Project-based learning. Growth-oriented learning. Goal-directed learning. The future of work is online.
- Education builds skills. Skills are assets. Assets are marketable if you can show them. Your portfolio shows your skills
- Asset-oriented learning. Goal-directed learning. Build your professional portfolio Reputation as an asset.
- Student-thinking versus breadwinner-thinking versus entrepreneurial thinking: coming of age in school
- Virtual Exchange: International competition, grants, fund virtual youth exchange programs
Job market
- The online school as employment agency. Studying online may offer online work opportunities to students.
- Online work
- 10 Fortune 500 Companies With Work at Home Jobs
- Work at Home Jobs With No Set Schedule
- 5 Unusual Ways to Find Freelance Writing Jobs Online
- How To Work From Home as a Copywriter
- 5 Ways To Earn Money With a Podcast
- 10 Sites That Pay You To Write About Politics
- Want To Teach ESL Online? Where To Get TESOL/TEFL Certification
- 10 Work at Home Jobs For People With Associate’s Degrees
- TwoSigmas Review – Find An ESL Tutoring Job
- Five Places to Find Work as a Paid Blogger
- Voice Over Jobs From Home – 7 Companies To Work For
- The Hoth Review – Get Weekly Pay For Online Content Writing
- Teach English Online At Home – 18 Companies That Pay!
- Freelancer
- Upwork: Freelancers
Digital skills
- Computational thinking in preparing instructions: Design thinking: Use-case analysis: Micro-learning JIT learning
- Think like a coder. Think like a planner. Think like digital teaching assistant (DTA). Computational thinking is really concrete planning.
- Computational thinking or how to get along with computers
- CVL Podcast help: How to get the audio (mp3) from a video (mp4) using Shotcut
- Podcasts for education. Snack packs of knowledge. Student-sized projects.
- Transcription of video to text: VidReader
- Four Good Places to Find Audio Files for Multimedia Projects
- Convenient video capture in Windows 10--any window
- The entrepreneurial educator: Build a portfolio, Promote your work
- Digital teamwork. Real work in virtual environments. Project-based learning needs project reporting. Here are the videos.
- Online whiteboards for your students to draw on. Yes, draw as on a physical whiteboard. Teachers of art and mathematics note
- Classroom discipline in digital worlds. The technology can provide powerful tools.
- A workgroup at work in a digital place. We travel the web. Less travel time, more work time. What workgroup work is not talk?
Virtual worlds
- Newcomer welcome coach (1): Basic skills needed promptly
- Travel tips for the Hypergrid. A DTA content page
- Learning Made in Second Life - CNDG
- Starting in digital (virtual) "worlds": Instructions for the casual user. Use-case planning. Design thinking
- Simple video editing with Shotcut, for virtual worlders
- Resources for video production in virtual worlds
- How to use OBS to get video in virtual worlds. Not the long and short of it. Just the short. And a few links to the long.
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- 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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