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The 21st Century
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Implications for the Future, Social Media, OER, ICT Adaptation, Educational Technology.
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Dr. Susan Bainbridge
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3D immersive virtual worlds in higher education: an Australian and New Zealand scoping study Delgamo, Barney; Lee, Mark J. W.; Carlson, Lauren; Gregory, Sueand Tynan, Belinda(2010). 3D immersive virtu... 
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"If Avaya has its way, business students will be replaced by avatars in a virtual world. Don’t laugh: It already happened at MIT Sloan. The company’s platform, Avaya Live Engage, is not about creating a virtual reality to live and play in; it’s about conducting business and educating people in a way that allows users to communicate as though they were attending a physical event."
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A new way of teaching and learning foreign languages has emerged: using virtual worlds, such as Second Life, to increase student engagement and confidence as they build new language skills.
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Take a tour of some of the best virtual field trips on the Web.
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The UEN Virtual Field Trip has two main sections - the public section where folks can view published field trips and the toolkit section where registered educators create the field trips.
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Luis Carlos Peña Gordillo's curator insight,
November 4, 2013 1:55 AM
Realidad virtual de alta tecnología tridimensional y procedimientos físicos.
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This site has been created to support the Virtual History Centre - a 3D virtual world for Victorian Students which is designed to support immersive learning.
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Concorde is retiring after 27 years in service. This is your chance to take a guided tour of the famous aircraft with the people who know it best.
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Discover GAME FOR SCIENCE: A free multiplayer virtual world entirely dedicated to science.
Lola Jennings- Edquist's curator insight,
August 12, 2013 3:52 AM
A very cool link, something that could come in useful for teaching kids science- especially those unenthused about the subject.
Could also lead to lessons or discussions in upper and middle primary classrooms in the way lessons have shifted over time as technology changes and advances- definite links to economics, here.
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"This thesis explores the features of Second Life and OpenSim that affect the choice of academics who are planning to use a virtual world in order to meet the learning needs of their students. For the conduct of this study, what was taken into account is a preexisting framework which proposes the evaluation of virtual worlds against four dimensions: their contexts, the immersion encountered within each, their cost, and their persistence. "
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You probably never thought you could attend a virtual lecture, discussion, exam, or lab in 3D. In fact, this is already possible. Virtual worlds have clear advantages over traditional classroom s...
Piet Kommers's curator insight,
April 6, 2013 5:28 PM
Realism and spatially-correct environments elicit new ambitions for learning. Virtuality and immersiveness however is not a pandora for the essential problems like motivation, concentration and abstraction. Let's build upon the success of gaming and check if a more playing attitude by the learner leads to certain benefits for longer term learning.
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Discover GAME FOR SCIENCE: A free multiplayer virtual world entirely dedicated to science.
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Discover GAME FOR SCIENCE: A free multiplayer virtual world entirely dedicated to science.
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Arounder virtual tours Travel and Lifestyle in 360-degree Quicktime VR - Virtual Reality Full Screen panoramas : amsterdam, athens, atlanta, augusta, barcelona, bellinzona, berlin, bern, bruxelles, copenhagen, cyprus, firenze, florence, hawaii, helsinki.
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Find a Mars-bound spaceship, glimpse a near-Earth asteroid, watch an elevator take off from the Moon, and more in this new augmented reality (AR) app created as companion to the exhibition. ...
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The internet has transformed the educational landscape, giving students more scope to access information and offering them the opportunity to collaborate in research projects online, says Aleks Krotoski...
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From
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Are virtual worlds really viable environments for work? According to a survey by Unisfair, usage of virtual environments is growing for marketing, training and collaboration.
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One of the wonders of the Internet is that it can bring the world to you instead of your needing to find the time and money to explore the traditional way. The following virtual tours bring opportunities to explore cities, famous landmarks and buildings, museums, college campuses, and even outer space.
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