2022 Adult learning, motivation, and the metaverse. Story-living and story-learning in the metaverse. Training in the 21st century.

 

Adult learning, motivation, and the metaverse.  

Story-living and story-learning in the metaverse.

Training in the 21st century.  

Employee training can be modernized.  It can come online where most employees are. It can be interactive and engaging and thus, more effective.

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• OSfestival 2022 Parcel051 Kimm Starr
• Virtual Vignette
• Metaverse: A shift from "storytelling"​ to "story-living"​
• Virtual home game
• MURDER MYSTERY QUEST: A TRAINING ADVENTURE IN 3D
• This immersive experience trains teams in Change Management skills 
• By engaging them with a story-driven mystery.
• What is Training in the 21st Century?
• With blends of learning methodologies, we create engaging, effective real-time and self-paced programs
• Contact T21C by email: 
• Carla@Traininginthe21stCentury.com
• or bhgross@yahoo.com

Go there

• OpenSimulator Fest grid
• Hypergrid address:
• grid.opensimfest.com:8022:HG-Welcome
• Paste the HG address in the find bar of the world map, click Find, TP
• In the OSFest grid, go to: Hydrogen

 

The main hall in Hydrogen

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2021 #VWEDU: Metaverse quests: The quest model, serious games, inquiry-based learning. Score-keeping and display, learning principles. Quest template.

Metaverse quests: 

The quest model, serious games, inquiry-based learning.  

Score-keeping and display, learning principles.  

Quest template.

A quest can be for something useful, such as an educational achievement.   

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• Go directly to the location
• https://3dww.a2zsg.com/3dlogin/world/?world=250
• Note: you may have to reload to get everything to appear
• Reload: button, lower left, circling arrows.  
• Go to 3DWebWorldz.  Medieval quest is under adventures. 
• https://3dwebworldz.com/

A serious game

• Learning the nomenclature.  That's learning the names of things.
• The vocabulary of a foreign language.
• The correct names for the specialized objects in any technical field.
• These usually have to be overlearned so that accurate recall is no effort.
• Treasure hunts can provide serious games to practice that vocabulary skill.
• They can also  provide formative assessment indicating level of achievement.
• Inquiry-based learning
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inquiry-based_learning
• To introduce a social element, form teams with a team assignment,  

2022 #VWEDU: Metaverse educational simulations. Students can visit the scene instead of just reading about it. Digital field trips.

Metaverse educational simulations.  

Students can visit the scene instead of just reading about it.   

Digital field trips.

The textbooks used to be limited to pictures.  Now that they are online, they can take students to replicas of the scenes. 

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• OSCC21: Designing Educational Virtual Simulations
  
• Experience and lessons learned in designing virtual simulations for learners in high and low resource settings 
• Challenges and opportunities for co-creating simulations with globally distributed teams.

2020 #VWEDU: Metaverse for immersive language learning. Role play in virtual worlds.

Metaverse for immersive language learning.  

Role play in virtual worlds.  

Language is a social skill.  Learning it takes a social environment. But that does not mean you have to pay people to provide it. 

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• Non Player Characters in 3DLES OpenSim
• Education in Virtual Worlds (English)
• 25 ESL Roleplay Ideas for the Classroom
  

• Immersive learning (Wikipedia)
• Experiential learning  (Wikipedia)
• Didactic learning (Wikipedia)
• Communicative language teaching (CLT)  (Wikipedia)
• Related articles after the break

2022 Metaverse: a place to learn. How to Design an Online Badged Open Course. If you want to teach online.

Metaverse: a place to learn.  

How to Design an Online Badged Open Course.  

If you want to teach online.

Watch a presentation on Designing an Online Badged Open Course (BOC) and scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) . 

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• The merit of badges: Define a useful skill set, specify a goal, give public recognition of skills.

• Professor Shailey Minocha Professor of Learning Technologies and Social Computing at The Open University, UK (Shailey Garfield in Second Life) 
• 
  
• Session moderator: 
• Sheila Webber (Sheila Yoshikawa in Second Life) 
• 
  
• Professor Shailey Minocha talks about 'Designing an Online Badged Open Course'. This is the course that Professor Minocha has designed and authored over the past year for the Open University: Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in STEM 
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• This course "provides a toolkit for conducting Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) within Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM)" and anyone can sign up to this course and obtain a digital badge. 
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• You may take the course from Open University, UK for free https://www.open.edu/openlearn/scienc... 
• A Virtual Worlds Education Roundtable event - in Second Life - location https://maps.secondlife.com/secondlif...
• After the break:  About badges

2022 VID: Building games in the metaverse: Metapocalypse - Zombie apocalypse in #metaverse? Yes, you can do that.

Building games in the metaverse: 

Metapocalypse - Zombie apocalypse in #metaverse?  

Yes, you can do that.

The metaverse is a place where you can try our your game building skills.   And market your game with a video if you want.

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• #metaverse
• Konk Combat Game Builder, with NPC interactions. The Metaverse Tour investigates
• Education in Virtual Worlds. Summary
• Games in virtual worlds. Summary
• Educational games in virtual worlds

2021 #VWEDU: Narrative-based learning in virtual worlds can be a form of PBL and/or of gamified learning. The detective story as a model.

Narrative-based learning in virtual worlds 

can be a form of PBL 

and/or of gamified learning. 

The detective story as a model. 

An illustration of how to integrate narrative, project, inquiry, gamification and role-playing into the basis for learning.

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Telling is not teaching

• Once you hear lecture about swimming, you never forget what you learned about lectures. Talking is not teaching.
• Real learning comes from practice, not from reading or hearing.  
• They remember some of what they read or heard, but not well.
• That's why they forget it over the summer. 
• And remember little of it when they get out of school. 

Narrative-based learning

• Inquiry-based learning, project-based learning 
• Narrative-based learning and the use of digital places as teacher and text With the DTA as mentor
• Narrative-based learning (Wikipedia)
• Scholarly articles for narrative-based learning
• How to teach narrative-based learning
• 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?
• Narrative-based learning (search)

Who would use narrative-based learning?

• Second language teachers using the target language.
• English teachers giving writing practice.
• Math teachers posing word problems.
• History teachers giving anecdotes relevant to the historical period.
• Any teacher showing the use of any subject.
• Any teacher using a narrative in game-based learning.
• Any teacher wanting to teach critical thinking skills.

2021 #VWEDU: Multiverse Masters, Gamification Simulation ideas. Desktop VR, no headset needed.

Multiverse Masters,

Gamification Simulation ideas

Desktop VR, no headset needed.

Gamification in desktop VR. 

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• By Salie Davis

Go there

• HG address: 
• grid.kitely.com:8002:Multiverse Masters
• KItely

Multiverse Masters

Multiverse Masters, is an evolving adventure-based world for education. Currently I am fine tuning the Island as an educators resource area filled with examples of uses and tutorial links at

• http://multiversemasters.blogspot.com 
• http://WoPoLi.com
• https://multiversemasters.wordpress.com 

Explore as you will as I have no idea what ventures lie ahead.

I try to remember to make free items I find lying about able to be copied when permitted. If ever you see something that your concerned about please let me know. My goal is to support the opensource community by keeping resources free and shared. Many awesome and inexpensive resources I find on the Kitely market. While creating worlds appropriate and beneficial for general audiences in the virtual environment I am having fun. I will often work on multiple projects

2012 Digital Badge Program to Recognize Language Proficiency. The badges are coming.

Digital Badge Program 

to Recognize Language Proficiency

The badges are coming.

Badges can replace academic degrees and target specific job description needs.

ACTFL and Language Testing International (LTI), the exclusive provider of ACTFL assessments, are pleased to announce a new digital badging program through Credly. Digital badges are now issued to students in higher education institutions and adults completing an official ACTFL proficiency assessment, and may include the associated ACE CREDIT recommendations for the ACTFL assessment taken. These badges will recognize the effort involved in learning a language and provide evidence of an indispensable, validated skill.

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• Articles about Digital Badges in this blog (below);

2021 #VWEDU: DTA: "Engaging Students in Goal Setting and Monitoring Progress." How much coaching and monitoring could be provided by a DTA?

"Engaging Students in Goal Setting and Monitoring Progress." 

How much coaching and monitoring could be provided by a DTA?

Effective education teaches goal setting and planning

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•  A fourth grader models the goal setting process through a coaching dialogue.
• Coaching and monitoring need constant attention to detail.
• That takes time.  A DTA can take the time if the teacher cannot.
• Learning objective for students.
• Student can set a concrete objective and prepare a credible plan for reaching it.

2021 #VWEDU: VW: OSCC (OpenSimulator Community Conference) Virtual Learning Village, Eurikaworld, Vesuvius Group, Indiana Unv. , Penn State online campus

OSCC (OpenSimulator Community Conference) :

Virtual Learning Village, Eurikaworld, Vesuvius Group, 

Indiana Unv. , Penn State Online Campus

Organizations and universities with important activities in virtual worlds. OSCC exhibits will continue to be accessible until the next OSCC.

A village to make a school

• Era of the entrepreneurial educator. The unbundling of education opens the gate for entrepreneurs.

• OSCC hypergrid address: cc.opensimulator.org:8002
• At any arrival point , look for a big sign offering teleports to exhibit areas (5)
• OPENSIMULATOR COMMUNITY VIRTUAL CONFERENCE: December 5-6, 2020. Presentations Dec.5 on education in OpenSim
• OPENSIMULATOR COMMUNITY VIRTUAL CONFERENCE: December 5-6, 2020. Presentations Dec.6 on education in OpenSim

• Update 1/28/2021 Land up, actives down in January. Sundance goes all-in on virtual this year. VWBPE2021 RECONNAISSANCE Call for Proposals.

2020 #VWEDU: #DTA: Microcredentials for the teachers, badges for the kids, guild ranks for the teens. All learning is microlearning, whether educators use it or not.

Microcredentials for the teachers, 
badges for the kids, guild ranks for the teens.  
All learning is microlearning, 
whether educators use it or not.

Learning requires focus.  Focus needs a goal.  Progress is one step at a time.  Badges mark the steps.  Teachers don't have time to manage all those badges.  Computers do have the time. 

Goal setting

Microlearning and skill sets 

• We sometimes gather learning into skill sets
• Where a skill set enables a person to do a particular task.
• We sometimes recognize a demonstrated skill set: 
• Microcredentials, badges, guild ranks
• Such recognition usually has specific criteria for a valid demonstration.
• The criteria could provide guidance in goal-setting.   
• But only if students and parents are informed about them.
• The criteria should be used for guidance in formulating learning objectives.
• Since the objective of learning a skill set is to be able use the skills.
• The merit of badges: Define a useful skill set, specify a goal, give public recognition of skills. 
• Gamification, yes.  But known since the 1930's as reinforcement.
• (Much of gamification is the application of long established principles of behavioral psycology.) 

• Update 11/19/2020 Covid feel good. VWBPE2021: RECONNAISSANCE Call for Proposals Educators' online calendar and OPLN. 

2020 #DTA: #VWEDU: Onboarding for teaching and learning in digital worlds. A microcredential (badge) model.

Onboarding for teaching and learning in virtual worlds.  
A microcredential (badge) model.

A microcredential (badge) model for onboarding students and teachers into digital worlds. This article is explicitly licensed Public Domain (CC0).

A digital class does not 

need a classroom

The badge story

• Digital badges highlight every accomplishment.
• That is like climbing steps (microcredentials) instead of scaling a wall.
• Badges identify the steps and show how to complete them.
• The actions required to earn a digital badge demonstrate a needed skill for a specific use case.
• Associated with a badge are instructions on how to develop the skill.
• Since badges are used in games, the use of badges may be called gamification.
• To note the practical value of badges, they may be called microcredentials.
• The merit of badges: Define a useful skill set, specify a goal, give public recognition of skills.

• Update 11/5/2020 VWBPE2021 Educators' online calendar and OPLN. Kitely 8X8 megaworlds. Federally Funded Language Programs.

2020 #VWEDU: Introducing Virtually Anywhere in Second Life language-learning project. Narrative-based learning (PBL) for languages. Pionia Destiny presents.

Introducing Virtually Anywhere in Second Life 

language-learning project.  

Narrative-based learning for languages

Narrative-based (project-based) learning of a second language. Following narration concentrates attention on the language.  And a project can exercise the production of that language.   Virtual scenes related to the story can provide and environment for developing the story. 

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The terms

• Transmedia storytelling
• PBL = project-based learning
• Narrative-based

The instruction

• Virtually Anywhere is a trans-media experience for language learning. 
• Students collaborate in the creation of a new fiction based on an existing series. 
• The story line is from the audio series by Cambridge Assessment English. 
• The series is about students struggling with coursework.
• A mentor appears and takes them on travels to virtual scenes.
• The virtual scenes fit with the narrative.  
• The narration is entirely in the target language. 
• The project is to write new episodes in the target language.
• The virtual scenes provide an environment for the new episodes.  

• Update 10/15/2020 Frequently Asked Questions on Virtual Currency Transactions OpenSimulator Community Conference 2020 Call for Proposals. BURN2 2020: The Multiverse Oct 9-18.

2020 #VWEDU Immersive language learning and: Why would you do a presentation this way? Use the powers of the Digitals.

Immersive language learning and: 

Why would you do a presentation this way?  

Use the powers of the Digitals.

We digitals have a new set of powers in the digital worlds.  We don't have to do things the old way.  We can do things in ways that are more productive in fitting our objectives.

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Speakers

• Heike Philp / Gwen Gwasi; 
• Jennifer Hamilton / Jaz Beverly; 
• Annalisa di Pierro /Innesfree;
• Helena Galani /erlinaazure 

Problems

• The presentation is 50 minutes long.  Few people will spend that long on a video.
• The audio is not of good quality.  
• Using the powers of the digitals on these problems.
• One power of the digitals is search on page.

• 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.

2020 #VWEDU: #DTA Era of the entrepreneurial educator. The unbundling of education opens the gate for entrepreneurs.

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

2020 #VWEDU: Looking around the campus: Virtual Learning Village

Looking around the campus: 

Virtual Learning Village

Continued interview with Maximillian Merlin about his online educational campus called "Virtual Learning Village".

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• Grid Website
• Tutorials

Behind the project:

• Virtual Learning Village is one of the online arms of the Ageless Mind Project.
• Maximillian Merlin  (Thomas Hofmeister) Germany   
• Buildwerk Website (global Building team): 

Features of this grid

• 3D digital world.
• Collaboration and social interaction.
• Interactive environments: objects can teach.
• G-rated environment: Family friendly.
• Programs available to support educational activities and games.
• Programming and building help available by qualified persons.
• (This may cost, but the workers will be experienced.)
• Attention to enabling features for disabilities.
• Available on the internet, so 24/7 anywhere with internet service.
• HG address: virtuallearningvillage.org:8002

• Update 10/1/2020 Freda's Place: Events for October. BURN2 2020: The Multiverse Oct 9-18. Virtual Worlds Teaching Manual

2020 #DTA: #VWEDU: Leaderboard alternatives in education managed by a digital teaching assistant (DTA): Recent rate. Rate per badge. Gamification

Leaderboard alternatives in education  
managed by a digital teaching assistant (DTA): 
Recent rate. Rate per badge.  Gamification.

Many educators see motivational problems with leaderboards.  A digital teaching assistant can support alternatives that may offer better gamification and better motivation.

The Empty Classroom

Taking notes is not the only skill

Do leaderboards motivate everyone?

• Leaderboards in education
• If you are way ahead, you can slack off.
• If you are way behind, you can give up.
• Some see themselves falling farther behind every week.
• How does a leaderboard work in games?
• Games are short.  Soon you start a new game with a clean slate.
• You get to pick your game.  You have a choice. 
• A digital teaching assistant (DTA) can easily handle the implied adjustments

• Update 8/6/2020 . Opensim Fest 2020 coming August 28-30 STÖMOL is a feature-length sci-fi video done in Second Life®.

2020 #VWEDU: Can schools be preparing students for future work, if working online is not part of the curriculum?

Can schools be preparing students for future work, 
if working online is not part of the curriculum? 

The old way of teaching does not work any more. It never did work very well for a lot of students.  Not even for students who figured out how to game it and so made good grades.  Sure we stored a lot of knowledge, but we never learned how to use most of it.  Because it was only good for passing tests and that is not what adults need to do.   

Not the workplace 

of the future

• Is it the future learning place?
• We need a global reskilling revolution – here's why
• Almost one-third of all jobs, are likely to be transformed by technology in the next decade.
• Most wanted skills of the future and the online courses to master them
• Hi tech skills, interpersonal skills: sales, care, education.
• Reskilling
• Why is digital literacy important in the workplace?
• Lifetime Learning Credit
• Lifelong learning
• Learning to learn

The problems

• How can we teach them future skills when we don't know what skills will be needed?
• How can the teachers teach skills the teachers don't have.
• Is a lecture on interpersonal skills adequate to teach interpersonal skills? 
• Once you hear lecture about swimming, you never forget what you learned about lectures. Talking is not teaching
• Teach them how to learn new skills.

• Linden Lab acquired by investors, Opensim Fest 2020 coming in August

2020 #VWEDU: #DTA: A learning place with a DTA can handle asynchronous study, but should it? I thought yes, but a teacher told me why I was wrong.

A learning place with a DTA can handle asynchronous study, 
but should it?   I thought, yes. 
but a teacher told me why I was wrong.

Students have their own circadian rhythms that may not match those of the school.  They have always had flexibility in scheduling homework.  Online learning could allow more flexibility, especially when a digital teaching assistant (DTA)  is available to help.  And busy teachers do not need to be spending time with students who do not need help.  When can students study with only the aid of a DTA?

The Empty Classroom

Studying on their own schedule

Asynchronous work by students

• Asynchronous study
• Group learning
• Either of these could be done with a mentor present or not.  
• Strictly asynchronous study would mean solo study.  
• A DTA could support that.
• Knowledge-based learning teaches study skills. That is learning how to "learn." The DTA can coach study skills.
• Learning the vocabulary with gamification and AI. Intelligent environment for routine instruction.
• Learning the vocabulary with gamification and AI. Intelligent environment for routine instruction.
• The Digital Teaching Assistant (DTA) for MUVES (virtual worlds): Summary
• But the skills of social interaction cannot be practiced alone.
• Nor can the skills of functioning in a work group. 
• And what if the students need help from the teacher?
• Here I try to sort things out more neatly.
• Synchronous and asynchronous learning