iED 2010 SUMMIT : Digital Lifestyles Centre, University of Essex, UK - Immersive Education Initiative #iED #SUMMIT #iED2010
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Immersive Education Initiative: http://ImmersiveEducation.org
Summit Session: "ASSESSING SCIENCE UNDERSTANDING WITH IMMERSIVE VIRTUAL WORLDS"
TRACK: RESEARCH (PRIMARY TRACK), GENERAL (SECONDARY TRACK)
TIME : 1 HOUR
SPEAKER:
Michael Gardner
Director, Digital Lifestyles Centre, University of Essex, UK
SESSION SUMMARY:
In this session Michael will provide attendees with an overview of three Wonderland-based virtual world research projects under development at the University of Essex in England:
MiRTLE: The MiRTLE project is a "MIxed Reality Teaching and Learning Environment" that enables teachers and students participating in real-time mixed and online classes to interact with avatar representations of each other. MiRTLE is designed to provide a mixed reality environment for a combination of local and remote students in a traditional instructive higher education setting. The solution augments existing teaching practice with the ability to foster a sense of community amongst remote students, and between remote and co-located locations.
SIMiLLE: This presentation is based on work on the JISC funded SIMiLLE project to build a culturally sensitive virtual world to support language learning. This builds on the MiRTLE project, which created a mixed-reality space for teaching and learning. The aim of the SIMiLLE project is to investigate the technical feasibility and pedagogical value of using virtual environments to provide a realistic socio-cultural setting and content for language learning interaction. The presentation starts by providing some background information on the Wonderland platform and the MiRTLE project, and then outlines the requirements for SIMiLLE, and how these requirements will be supported through the use of a virtual world based on Wonderland. We then present our plans for the evaluation of the system, with a particular focus on the importance of incorporating pedagogy into the design of these systems, and how we can support good practice with the ever-growing use of 3D virtual environments in formalised education.
+Spaces: +Spaces is a new EU collaborative project focused on intelligent virtual spaces for eGovernment. Intelligent environments most commonly take a physical form (such as homes, offices, hotels, restaurants, shops, and so forth) that are equipped with advanced networked computer based systems, which enable better or new lifestyles for people. However, intelligent environments can also take the form of immersive virtual world spaces, which can mimic the real world and provide functionalities that could not be provided in reality, such as advanced simulations and movement. There is the growing trend for people to spend more time in such virtual environments and, to these ends, this presentation reports on a new project, +Spaces which is developing a range of virtual world tools for e-government applications, and presents some of the concepts and technical challenges involved in creating these intelligent virtual spaces for e-government.
WONDERLAND, VIRTUAL WORLDS, MIXED REALITY, LANGUAGE LEARNING, JISC, EGOVERNMENT, INTELLIGENT VIRTUAL SPACES, INTELLIGENT ENVIRONMENTS, EUROPEAN UNION, EU, +Spaces, SIMiLLE, MiRTLE
Immersive Education Initiative: http://ImmersiveEducation.org
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