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2024 Trends We’d Like to See

Upside Learning

With an affordance perspective, you can see that Second Life was about social and immersive 3D (at any scale). For instance, virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) have been an eager expenditure for organizations. Remember going to an event in Second Life, only to be subjected to a slide show?

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A Few More Alternatives to Second Life

Kapp Notes

With all the bad news in the virtual worlds space this week (read Not a Good Week for the Virtual World Space ), I wanted to point out that many healthy 3D virtual immersive environments still exist and more are coming on line daily. Tags: virtual immersive environment.

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2024 Learning and Development Trends We’d Like to See

Upside Learning

With an affordance perspective, you can see that Second Life was about social and immersive 3D (at any scale). For instance, virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) have been an eager expenditure for organizations. Remember going to an event in Second Life, only to be subjected to a slide show?

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OpenSim and virtual worlds

Moodle Journal

Apart from my work here at Bromley Colleg with Moodle and all that that involves, some time ago, I think it must be about 7 or 8 years now, I discovered 3DML and started to do some developing with buidling 3D worlds or Spots as they were called back then. Anyway I built a Spot, and trialed it with my students with really encouraging results.

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Anders Gronstedt Discusses How to Lead Learning Sessions in Virtual Worlds

Kapp Notes

The other day, I was speaking with virtual world learning expert Anders Gronstedt about teaching in a 3D virtual immersive environment. Anders provided some great insights for anyone who is conducting a class or session in a 3D virtual immersive environment. Competencies in leading virtual worlds learning programs.

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Teaching Higher Order Skills in a Virtual World

Kapp Notes

Another question about virtual worlds and learning. abstraction; synthesis; evaluation; experimentation; reflection) in a virtual world? Virtual worlds are ideal for placing a learner into a problem solving situation. Does the initial cost off set the long-term savings. Where to put solar panels?

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Decided to get Mooc'ed

Moodle Journal

The course: - Second Life MOOC ran from April 1 to 30 2014. The theme was connecting online for collaborative learning and teaching through Second Life. I was also pleased to see that Moodle was being used for asynchronous work with the synchronous side of things handled by WizIQ & Second Life.

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