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FURTHER EXPLORATIONS ON SUPPORTING LEARNING IN VIRTUAL WORLDS WITH WEB-BASED LEARNING ENVIRONMENTSDaniel LIVINGSTONEThe University of the West of Scotland
HOW CAN WEB-BASED VLES SUPPORT LEARNING IN VIRTUAL WORLDS?
Three broad categories of ways to use VLE and VW together:
With access to the VLE from within the virtual worlds (web-embedded in the virtual world)
Providing guidance external (and separate from) the VW learning experience
By sharing data between VW & VLE about activities taking place in the VW
WEB IN-WORLD
ACCESSING THE VLE (WEB IN-WORLD)
...OR WORN BY AN AVATAR!
SUPPORT FROM WEB
SUPPORTING VW ACTIVITIES FROM WEB
Simplest form of linking is to provide hyperlinks from web-pages from within the VLE
Modern VLEs are often used as a course’s ‘home’ online
Natural to exploit this to provide guidance and support for VW activities: Instructions, help, FAQs, discussion boards, etc.
Simple lessons: Providing links to the VW at the start of a set of
instructions will result in many students not reading the instructions!
Attention split between VW/VLE
SUPPORTING TUTORIAL GROUPS (OPEN UNIVERSITY)
CONNECTING VW & VLEWith SLOODLE
SLOODLE
SLOODLE is a plugin for VW (OpenSim/Second Life) & VLE (Moodle) Data sharing & integration
Identity Activity
Variety of tools supporting range of learning activities
SLOODLE is an open-source project (GPL) Developed in PHP (server) & LSL (SL/OpenSim)
MIRROR ACTIVITIES IN VW & VLE
Web-intercom (text chat) Glossary Choice Presenter Quiz (not shown)
CLINICAL SIMULATION – SUPPORTING REFLECTION (IMPERIAL)
TRACKING PROGESS IN VW ACTIVITIES (ULSTER & UWS)
RESOURCES
Set of video tutorials & supporting materials Virtual world basics, installing SLOODLE, using
SLOODLE tools, example lessons (Model PC & CPU simulator)
Developed by partners at University of Ulster Available from:
http://virtualworldsandvles.jiscinvolve.org/wp/
SUPPORTING REUSE AND OER
MEANWHILE... SLOODLE 2.0
Edmund Edgar (Avatar Classroom) leading the development of SLOODLE 2.0
Current: Moodle 1.9.x & Moodle 2.x Compatible New Classroom Rezzer: Save & load groups of
objects, including postions& Moodle settings Awards: Infrastructure to support GBL
In the works Moodle 2.1 quiz compatibility Full OpenSim port Functions to enable sharing scenes