We are pleased to inform you that the much-awaited Australasian Journal of Educational Technology (AJET) special issue on Virtual Worlds in Tertiary Education, guest edited by Mark J. W. Lee (Charles Sturt University and University of New England), Barney Dalgarno (Charles Sturt University) and Helen Farley (University of Southern Queensland) has now been published. The [...]
Engaging the Avatar: New Frontiers in Immersive Education Editors: Randy Hinrichs, 2b3d Charles Wankel, St. John’s University, New York * More information at http://infoagepub.com/products/Engaging-the-Avatar * Paperback 978-1-61735-751-0 * Hardcover 978-1-61735-752-7 * eBookISBN: 978-1-61735-753-4 Engage your students with something bright, fresh, and never static. Do you want to understand the future of education? Are you feeling [...]
Our next NVWN event will be a presentation on vAcademia on Wednesday, January 18, 16:00 to 17:00 CET / 7:00 to 8:00 am SLT. Please join! Virtual Academia (vAcademia) is a new educational virtual world platform, developed by Virtual Spaces LLC in collaboration with the Multimedia Systems Laboratory at the Mari State Technical University, Russia. [...]
Ilan Tochner, CEO of Kitely, will make a presentation on “How to Kickstart your Education Project” on Monday, Dec 5, 1:00 to 3:00 pm CET (4:00 am to 6:00 am SLT) on SSE’s island in Second Life. If you cannot make the session in Second Life, we will livestream this on our NVWN channel. You [...]
On Friday, Oct 28, 10:00 to 12:00 CET, members of the Nordic higher education community will meet for a brainstorming meeting about how those of us in the Nordic region could collaborate on our Virtual World educational and research activities as well as share resources as part of a Nordic initiative. We believe that [...]
On March 18, I presented at the 4th Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education Conference – a virtual conference open to anyone interested in education anywhere in the world on March 17-19, 2011. While the majority of conference events occurred in Second Life, there were a number of virtual world explorations including World of Warcraft, [...]
From the SLED list: If you are interested in presenting your work in virtual worlds, learning games, simulators or mixed/augmented reality at the Immersive Education Summit 2011 Summit (“iED 2011″) in Boston please submit your presentation proposal today at http://MediaGrid.org/summit. World’s leading immersive learning experts and practitioners convene May 13-15 in Boston BOSTON, MA – [...]
What is the experience for new hires in your organization? Think of not just the campus hires, but also the experienced hires. What is the education and development experience for them that gets them ready for their new post? I’m a member of the Advisory Board for the NVWN, and a leader of the Learning [...]
Remko Helms of Utrecht University inspired his Knowledge Management class today in his lecture on Knowledge Network Analysis. Robin Teigland of SSE and NVWN then spoke about networks and social media. The slides from both presentations can be found here. The lecture was held on SSE’s island in Second Life. One of the purposes of [...]
On Wednesday, May 5, Tobias Krantz visited the Stockholm School of Economics to learn about the school’s education and research programs. He was accompanied by Eva-Marie Byberg, Press Secretary, and Mikael Herjevik, Special Advisor. After presentations on the school’s bachelor, masters, and PhD programs, I presented for about 10 minutes on how we are using [...]
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