Using virtual worlds for teaching and learning

Teaching and Learning

What are the possibilities of creative and practical online collaboration and learning in Multi-User Virtual Environments (MUVEs)?

Researching

A record of the research done during the Open Habitat project and a look forward to where the field may be going seen through that lens.

Managing

A trail of how some of the issues in the Open Habitat project were dealt with, together with some of our successes and challenges.

By David White August 28th, 2008

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Dave White

Teaching and Learning

Presenting the challenges at the half-way point in the project.

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Video Summary of the First Phase of Piloting Activity

This link takes you to a video presentation (28 mins) given by David White, Open Habitat's Principal Investigator, on August 28th 2008. Dave outlines the key aspects of the project and goes through some of the challenges encountered in the first round of pilots.

http://media.conted.ox.ac.uk/res02

Teaching and Learning

Voice from Open Habitat

Good experiences with SL

[5:18] Paz Lorenz: What was great?
[5:19] Nondescript String: Ease of creation
[5:19] Laurelle Lemon: Flying!
[5:19] Kez Turbo: AVATARS :')
[5:19] Dizzee Jigsaw: waking up 1 minute before lecture
[5:19] Laurelle Lemon: I agree
[5:19] Kez Turbo: proper loved th costumes you could get
[5:19] Axy Magic: flying, looking at things from another point of view :) free clothes ha
[5:19] Ayesha Franizzi: meeting people and chatting
[5:19] Laurelle Lemon: free hairstyles
[5:19] Laurelle Lemon: dress ups fun
[5:19] Tej Ametza: being able to explore a new world trieing something different
[5:19] emz Diesel: the social part of it - working as a team and learning to communicate in the virtual world, it was a different experince discussing an showing ideas in world