2020 #VWEDU: Why the digital campus should provide private student places: Identity and ownership. And how to do it in virtual worlds

Why the digital campus should provide student places.  

Identity and ownership.

Schools can provide private spaces for students at negligible cost and with significant benefits.  

My place in 3DWebWorldz

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• I make my place public so anyone can visit.
• No walls or roof: the weather is always good.

A place of my own.

• Where they can keep a calendar, a work schedule, and links to work in progress.
• Where they can show their work products and talk with friends
• Display badges, trophies, posters and media prims showing their portfolio products.
• A place where they can put their furniture and decorations.
• How do they get all those things?  By working (learning) for them.  
• How to Teach Online So All Students Feel Like They Belong

What gives a sense of ownership? 

• Control: having control over it
• Intimate knowledge: knowing a lot about it
• Self-investment: putting a lot of effort into customizing it.

Can virtual worlds handle private spaces?

• Web-worlds, completely
• Installed virtual worlds, mostly private

Suggested sources

• Metaverse software
• 3DWebWorldz
• Kitely organizations

• Update 10/22/2020 Kitely 8X8 megaworlds. Federally Funded Language Programs. OpenSim land area, actives continue fall increase.

2020 #VWEDU: The entrepreneurial school. Beyond online classes. The online campus: student rooms, team workrooms, libraries, museums,

The entrepreneurial school. 

Beyond online classes.
The online campus: student rooms, team workrooms,
libraries, museums and galleries

Online schools need to offer more that online classes.  Traditional schools offer much more than classes.  LIbraries, field trips. career exploration and counselling, etc..  Online schools can easily offer such services.  

Universal campus (Kitely)

Why?

• The coming of the virtual campus: Online schools need an online campus. "Stanford University Students Flock to a Virtual Campus"
• 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
• Online education, sure. But why a virtual campus? Why in a virtual world (MUVE)?
• Era of the entrepreneurial educator. The unbundling of education opens the gate for entrepreneurs.

• Update 10/8/2020 OpenSimulator Community Conference 2020 Call for Proposals. Empire State College (ESC) virtual residency Oct 10 in Kitely. BURN2 2020: The Multiverse Oct 9-18.

2019 EDU: WW: The online campus: Your campus on the internet. Meet fellow students, work with them

The online campus:
Your  campus 
on the internet 

This campus travels the world.  It can teach in any language its owner wants.  It is open any time students want to meet there.  It can meet students in their own homes. The elaborate version requires installing an app.  The simple version lives in a browser (Chrome, for example).   

Universal campus (Kitely)

A campus is more than classes

• A campus is not just a place where you go to study.
• You meet fellow students, you work with them, you learn from them.
• You develop contacts you may work with in your later career.
• You can take online classes by yourself.  
• Can you talk with anyone about what you are learning?
• In the old-style school, you could talk with classmates.
• You could ask them questions, answer questions, study together.
• Can you do that in an online class?  
• Maybe not, but you can do it in a virtual campus

What is a virtual campus? 

• A virtual campus is a 3D representation of a college campus. 
• Students attend via the internet, but it goes beyond online courses.
• Students don't have to learn by themselves.  
• They come to classes with other students. 
• There are commons rooms for students to meet out of class.
• Students can organize their own clubs, hold their own events. 
• They can hold study sessions with other students as they wish.
• They can form fraternities and sororities if the school allows it. 
• A virtual campus is more than online classes. 
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• MUVE update 3/28/2019 VWBPE 2019 April 4-6 (Immersive experiences already started)

2019 BIZ: EDU: Kitely for educators: A virtual campus, educational places, educational products

Kitely for educators:   
A virtual campus, 
educational places, 
educational products

A review of Kitely features supporting education, including schools and colleges. 

Search Kitely worlds

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• Your Kitely virtual campus: You manage it, Kitely does the tech work
• Free campus template on Kitely
• Kitely Market: Educational products

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• MUVE update 3/7/2019 Opensim Fest exhibits thru April 6; Time to shift away from G+

2019 BIZ: THEME: EDU: Kitely offers themed "grids". Independent websites using Kitely tech but managed by an organization

Kitely offers themed "grids".  
Independent websites using Kitely tech 
but managed by the user organization

Introducing Kitely Organizations (private grids) that let schools and other organizations have their own 3D places with tech management by Kitely and student management by the school.

The Empty Classroom

• Themed grids are especially suited to schools.
• The school and its offerings would be the theme. 
• The grid would use the name of the school. 
• The school would manage the student activities.
• With Organizations, Kitely would do the tech work to run the grid.

Kitely organizations (virtual grids)

• Introducing Organizations (Virtual Grids)
• Organizations is in addition to the standard Kitely grid.
• It has no effect on the people in the current Kitely grid.
• Unless they want to produce content to support an organization.
• The main users of Organizations are likely ti be educators.
• They could buy educational products on Kitely Market for courses.
• They could rent educational regions for use in courses.
• Educational regions could be replicas of culturally relevant sites.
• Credentialed instructors might get positions as adjunct faculty.
• Adjunct faculty might bring their own instructional content or regions.

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• MUVE update 1/27/2019 Murder for dessert, OpenSim Fest, blogs, voice

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2019 EDU: Kitely announces virtual campuses for schools (and other organizations): Virtual worlders would say private grids.

Kitely announces virtual campuses 
for schools (and other organizations):  
Virtual worlders would say private grids. 

Overview of Kitely's new service, virtual private campuses, an arrangement that lets schools and other organizations manage the people in their space as they do in the physical campuses they are accustomed to.

Universal campus
Free template

Your virtual campus

• Introducing Organizations (Virtual Grids)
• Kitely’s new private grids aimed at non-techies

Virtual campuses for real organizations

• Kitely handles the Building and Grounds work.
• You run the school or organization.
• You don't teach people  how to register. You register them (batch registration).
• You register everyone, using a database or spreadsheet from your own records.
• You don't teach people how to get a viewer and install it. There's an AP for that.
• You don't teach people to find their classrooms.  You tell that to system. 
• You don't send people somewhere else to get into to your campus. 
• You give them a link that opens an entry screen with your organization's name on it.
• In short, you manage the school, Kitely manages the details.

• MUVE update 1/10/2019: Pecan Pie murder, OpenSim Fest, Edu Funding

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