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FURTHER EXPLORATIONS ON SUPPORTING LEARNING IN VIRTUAL WORLDS WITH WEB-BASED LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS Daniel LIVINGSTONE The University of the West of Scotland

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Further explorations on Supporting Learning in Virtual Worlds with Web-Based Learning Environments. Daniel LIVINGSTONE The University of the West of Scotland. How can web-based VLEs Support learning in Virtual worlds?. Three broad categories of ways to use VLE and VW together: - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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FURTHER EXPLORATIONS ON SUPPORTING LEARNING IN VIRTUAL WORLDS WITH WEB-BASED LEARNING ENVIRONMENTSDaniel LIVINGSTONEThe University of the West of Scotland

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HOW CAN WEB-BASED VLES SUPPORT LEARNING IN VIRTUAL WORLDS?Three broad categories of ways to use VLE and

VW together: With access to the VLE from within the virtual

worlds (web-embedded in the virtual world) Providing guidance external (and separate

from) the VW learning experience By sharing data between VW & VLE about

activities taking place in the VW

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WEB IN-WORLD

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ACCESSING THE VLE (WEB IN-WORLD)

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...OR WORN BY AN AVATAR!

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SUPPORT FROM WEB

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SUPPORTING VW ACTIVITIES FROM WEB Simplest form of linking is to provide

hyperlinks from web-pages from within the VLE

Modern VLEs are often used as a course’s ‘home’ online

Natural to exploit this to provide guidance and support for VW activities: Instructions, help, FAQs, discussion boards, etc.

Simple lessons: Providing links to the VW at the start of a set of

instructions will result in many students not reading the instructions!

Attention split between VW/VLE

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SUPPORTING TUTORIAL GROUPS (OPEN UNIVERSITY)

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CONNECTING VW & VLEWith SLOODLE

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SLOODLE SLOODLE is a plugin for VW

(OpenSim/Second Life) & VLE (Moodle) Data sharing & integration

Identity Activity

Variety of tools supporting range of learning activities

SLOODLE is an open-source project (GPL) Developed in PHP (server) & LSL (SL/OpenSim)

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MIRROR ACTIVITIES IN VW & VLE

Web-intercom (text chat) Glossary Choice Presenter Quiz (not shown)

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CLINICAL SIMULATION – SUPPORTING REFLECTION (IMPERIAL)

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TRACKING PROGESS IN VW ACTIVITIES (ULSTER & UWS)

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RESOURCES Set of video tutorials & supporting materials

Virtual world basics, installing SLOODLE, using SLOODLE tools, example lessons (Model PC & CPU simulator)

Developed by partners at University of Ulster Available from:

http://virtualworldsandvles.jiscinvolve.org/wp/

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SUPPORTING REUSE AND OER

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MEANWHILE... SLOODLE 2.0 Edmund Edgar (Avatar Classroom) leading

the development of SLOODLE 2.0 Current:

Moodle 1.9.x & Moodle 2.x Compatible New Classroom Rezzer: Save & load groups of

objects, including postions& Moodle settings Awards: Infrastructure to support GBL

In the works Moodle 2.1 quiz compatibility Full OpenSim port Functions to enable sharing scenes

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#SLOODLE_NEWSWWW.SLOODLE.ORG#[email protected]