higher education in second life
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HIGHER EDUCATION IN
VIRTUAL WORLDSNancy L. Zingrone, Ph.D.School of PsychologyNorthcentral University
TOPICS A little history
Some advantages and disadvantages
Some informal stats on universities in Second Life
Some formal stats from the Australia and New Zealand Virtual Worlds Working Group
Examples of usages
More Info
University of St Martin de Porres
Nellie Homewood (Nellie Deutsch)
Tom Atuto Mate
(Tom Hodgers)
Virtual World Education Roundtable
(org by Kali Pizzaro, Glasgow Caledonian University)
A LITTLE HISTORY: WHAT ARE THE CHARACTERISTICS OF A VIRTUAL WORLD Visual Immersion 3-D Display Reality is but a step away Machine-based/Computer-based
environment that feels complete even when it’s not exactly
Proves for social connections
Retrieved from http://www.dipity.com/WebHistoryProject/Virtual_Worlds/ and https://archive.org/details/vw_bruce-damer-poptech-2003-09
A LITTLE HISTORY: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA CRUZ WAS AMONG THE FIRST
A virtual world built by
UCSC students working with an
international set of collaborators, set up by the
university in 1998
Retrieved from http://www.dipity.com/WebHistoryProject/Virtual_Worlds/ and https://archive.org/details/vw_virtual-ucsc-devarco
AND OF COURSE THERE WAS LINDENWORLD …
Retrieved from http://www.dipity.com/WebHistoryProject/Virtual_Worlds/ , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uK3x3FNlleU, and http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/History_of_Second_Life
ADVANTAGES OF VIRTUAL WORLDS …
Shared real time experience Immersive nature of the environment Opportunities for real world collaboration Building and scripting Low cost or free meeting space and in-world
“gadgets” Notecards and Intellibook Social distance is both close and far Transfer of learning through to real world situations
Images retrieved from http://secondlife.com/destination/the-university-of-western-Australia, and http://secondlife.com/destination/indiana-university-second-life-campus
University of Western Australia
Indiana University
DISADVANTAGES OF VIRTUAL WORLDS
Time zones and language barriers Technological requirements Pressure to chat and play Assumptions about etiquette Too many rules Too few rules Discomfort to the point of avoidance Comfort to the point of addiction
Images retrieved from http://secondlife.com/destination/usf-healthand http://www.ecu.edu/cs-itcs/secondlife/courses.cfm
University of San Francisco
Eastern Carolina University
AFFORDANCES Scenarios, simulations and role play Team work or team building through presence or co-presence Virtual Worlds as the focus of attention (programming,
modeling, 3-D construction) (Savin-Baden et al., 2010) Enabling experiential learning activities, impractical or
impossible to construct in the real world Facilitating intrinsically motivating, authentic learning
activities Teaching skills that transfer directly to the real world
(Degarno & Lee, 2010)From Savin-Baden, M., Gourlay, L., Steils, N., Tombs, G., & Mawer, M. (2010).
Situating pedagogies, positions and practices in immersive virtual worlds. Educational Research, 52(2), 123–133 and Dalgarno, B., & Lee, M. J. W. (2010). What are the learning affordances of 3-D virtual environments?
British Journal of Educational Technology, 41(1), 10–32. Image retrieved from http://world.secondlife.com/place/e5789361-86a2-612c-ea09-9673c4da00c0?lang=en-US
Prof OddProfessor Snoodle’s Science Museum and Installation
SOME INFORMAL STATS … Ran down the list of universities in
Second Life Found 96 universities A few had listings but no campuses A few had welcome centers with 0 traffic The rest (89) were: 50 from the USA, 7 each
from Australia (many had multiple campuses) and England, 3 from Canada, Germany and the Netherlands, 2 from Switzerland, 1 each from Austria, Brunei, Czech Republic, Egypt, France, Italy, Japan, Norway, Peru, Poland, Scotland, Turkey, United Arab Emirates and Vietnam
But I got tired and didn’t finish …
Altogether-too-relaxed Maggie Larimore in Second Life
At the SLMOOC Headquarters on Route 9 in Madhupak in the Chilbo Neighborhood on Second Life’s Mainland
To visit go here: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Madhupak/107/81/62
SOME FORMAL STATS … The Australia & New Zealand Virtual
Worlds Working Group article (Gregory et al., 2014) was authored by over 30 individuals from over 20 universities
27 scholarly multi-authored papers from 2010 through 2015 on the work of the group
A wide variety of applications from history to medicine to architecture, psychology and physics are still in place in a variety of virtual worlds are detailed elsewhere (e.g., Virtual Outworlding)
Find VWWG articles at: http://www.vwwg.info/dissemination.html; Virtual Outworlding at: http://virtualoutworlding.blogspot.com/2015/03/2015-edu-hypergrid-hypergrid-education.html;University of Arizona, Africana Studies, Virtual Harlem: http://uaatwork.arizona.edu/lqp/africana-studies-professor-helping-build-1920s-virtual-harlem
Southern Cross University
Monash University
University of Arizona
EXAMPLES OF USAGES …
Aaron Griffiths (in SL: Isa Goodman) YouTube tour: https://youtu.be/LHkBlucQfYk
EXAMPLES OF USAGES …
University of Glasgow in Second Life YouTube tour: https://youtu.be/gYcNZ9pK-Jw
EXAMPLES OF USAGES …
Nursing Education, University of Texas, 2014 YouTube tour: https://youtu.be/SkgOCRZV7Nc
EXAMPLES OF USAGES …
Professor Vicki Robinson, National Institute for the Deaf, SLMOOC2014 Tour YouTube tour: https://youtu.be/64T3UpNNMtY
EDUCATION IN VIRTUAL WORLDS: RESOURCES Virtual Worlds Wiki: http://www.vwed.org/wiki/Main_Page A Taxonomy of Virtual Worlds Usage in Education: http://
ishbel.host.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Research/SL_Taxonomy.pdf Internet World Usage Statistics: http://www.internetworldstats.com/ List of articles in St. Andrew’s review of virtual world education: http://
ishbel.host.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Research/TaxonomyBiblio.pdf Horizon Project on the use of Virtual Worlds in Education: http
://horizonproject.wikispaces.com/Virtual+Worlds+-+Impact+on+Education Journal of Virtual World Research: http://jvwresearch.org/ Virtual Education Journal: http://virtualeducationjournal.com/ ISTE Virtual Environment Network: http://
connect.iste.org/communities/community-home?CommunityKey=098d3a54-b647-41f0-9215-01f266642af8
SLMOOC2015 Playlist (on Teaching & Learning Online: https://youtu.be/3OVxkjHoLK4?list=PLJ3X6QA0jmezmg289Zi2BHQ0ARYKLWIOF
SLMOOC2014 Playlist (on Nellie Deutsch): https://youtu.be/JmMRh25riCA?list=PL8JUcjyABKxkyil1ZrPM4YYGpBCpaOquV
THANKS FOR YOUR ATTENTION!
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or IM Maggie Larimore in SL or visit Chilbo (we’re in Second Life search)
And don’t Forget to look for “SLMOOC2016” in April of 2016