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Eileen O’Connor, Associate Professor, Empire State College
Eileen O’Connor, Associate Professor, Empire State
College
Open SUNY Fellow Role: Innovator and/ or
Researcher
Topic: Virtual Reality in Online Graduate Instruction: A
Seven Year Overview
Theme: Cool Tools and Emerging Learning
Environments
COTE NOTE: http://bit.ly/cotenotevrinstruction
Virtual Reality in Online Graduate
Instruction: A Seven Year
Overview
This presentation highlights seven years of integrating virtual reality into online education courses to build community, share work, create virtual conferences
and poster sessions, and develop collaborative projects. A new course has students beginning to design their own complex virtual environments. Suggestions on effective virtual usage to be shared too.
Eileen O’Connor, Ph.D. - Empire State College [email protected]
Pictorial overview in conjunction with
presentation – September 2014
Agenda
Poll audience – experience with virtual reality?
Basics & orientation
Examples from my work and my students
Suggestions for use & getting started
Segue into sharing & collaborating / more discussions
WARNING: a picture-heavy presentation
Why Virtual Reality?
Community building
Collaboration Study /
simulations / visits
Creation / programming
Education & conceptual frameworks abound – motivation, constructivism, “authentic learning,” community of practice, assessment, analytics, evaluation, learning goals, objectives, outcome, simulations, Piaget, Vygotsky, dual coding, digital natives, scaffolding, training, project-based learning, problem-based learning, 21st century approaches, immersive experiences
Ways to procure your own virtual
experiences
Virtual Usage Approaches (join communities)
Second Life / Active Worlds / other providers
Rent islands
Get advanced avatar w/ small land
Sharecrop / field trips
Or, get Open Source (code from SL)
Stand alone or
hypergrid
Types of viewers
Try on your computer
Various platforms today
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenSimulator
http://opensimulator.org/wiki/Main_Page
New providers are emerging; lower
cost but stability?
http://www.kitely.com/
http://www.dreamlandmetaverse.com/
Joining community
groups http://www.avacon.org/blog/
More “world” providers are becoming available quickly;
look at the HyperGrid Business for upcoming ideas
http://www.hypergridbusiness.com/
Example
from the
Sept 2013
conference
My pathways into virtual
Initial motivation – to create an education
platform that could have the potential for
intrinsically motivating experiences that
could be shared across geography for K12
STEM (science, technology, engineering,
mathematics)
If World of Warcraft has their minds, why
can’t we?
To bring in pre-service teachers
Many applications emerged
To start other virtual reality developers
K12
Teacher Ed
Virtual developers
As work in virtual space continued,
more adventuresome work began
Virtual collaborative projects, used:
“Pod” development
Integrated science project (demonstrated through project
websites)
Final project presentations
Study and publications on the work, showed the collaborations
supported more effective project outcomes
Research related to and within the virtual environment, although
focused on the collaboration components
User group & website
Finally . . .
I began teaching a class on working & designing in
virtual reality
For the MALET program (Master of Arts in Learning and
Emerging Technology) at Empire State College
Students are now creating / designing amazing new
virtual spaces
Most are using some orginal design and some
purchased items
Using ESC island now
Working on next steps – open-source / others / ???
Private class website – for documenting & sharing ongoing progress
My resource website
Composite resource website
Virtual classroom created by student – used as an ag-tech meeting space
Virtual classroom created by student – used a GPS tractor simulation too (YouTube inside the simulation)
Virtual – learning by doing / trampoline
Virtual – artistic & musical creation
Virtual – dorm management - meetings & classroom
Virtual – dorm management - residence area
Virtual – dorm management - Penthouse & simulation
Virtual – dorm management
My sabbatical too – healthcare simulation for middle school instruction/ work w/ Africa – private island
Examples & resources https://sites.google.com/site/3dvirtualexamples/
Education (K12 example) Corporate / Retail Gov / social
Setting – real K12 building w/ common
rooms, labs, gyms,
cafeteria, etc.
Board room; factory or
offices; stores
Civic or military
setting; conference
center; hospital, social
work
Setting – phantasy Areas that simulate the
content areas taught
Envisioning area – for
customers & products;
future resort or
building
A futuristic
government or social
environment
Meetings / Events Students in “classic”
room; teacher meetings;
parent-teacher office
Board room ; product
development; human
resources; professional
development
Town park w/ band-
shell; police barracks;
lab safety training
meeting;
Role playing /
enactments
Students enact history or
science activities; school
play
Enactment of working
with an irate
customer, a
manufacturing
problem, a new
showroom opening
Enactments of intake
screening (social
work); emergency
management training
Simulations Any of the backgrounds
for the content areas
Any of the events or
product developments
for the enterprise
A “real” scene or event
that the organization
oversees
http://www.interactivelearningsolutions.net/virtual/courseIntro/VirtPract-sp2014-example.html
Ways to procure virtual experiences
Virtual Usage Approaches (join communities)
Second Life / Active Worlds / other providers
Rent islands Get advanced
avatar w/ small land
Sharecrop / field trips
Or, get Open Source (code from SL)
Stand alone or hypergrid
Types of viewers
Try on your computer
Examples of Virtual Reality (many videos); the link to this website will be shared
Title & clickable link Min. Description of Virtual Reality (VR) applications, video, and presentations
VP course overview 3 Overview of Virtual Practicum (VP) course
View VR creations / development ideas 2 Simulations & uses created by students sp 2014; explains VP course too
Designing complex VR apps A document that describes all aspects of designing a complex virtual
Planning VR healthcare/K12 apps 3 Explains the education theories behind a K12 VR STEM application
Repurposing islands to make VR 4 Using available objects & open-sim islands for rapid development
Middle-school VR project - science 3 Reviews a virtual island being created for middle-school STEM project
Middle school student projects in VR 6 Research on middle school work in VR on STEM topic; students present too
Plans for sabbatical w/ VR & STEM 4 Conceptual planning for healthcare application using a VR mobile van
Faculty preparing for a presentation 2 Faculty member will come later to meet students / prepping
Student VR project – Zippo 3 VR of plant floor created by ESC student
History of VR & new features 2 Highlights the development of VR & current advances
VR & K12 / teacher education 4 Teacher ed. & K12 at ESC; video from actual work & presentations
Poster session & votes in VR 3 Science-ed students present posters in VR; faculty visit & peers vote
MALET & use of VR 3 Conceptual overview of VR uses in new emerging-tech program
Video view & discuss w/in VR 3 Students observe & discuss video in VR / “loop” into discussion board
VR overview & business apps 55 Presentation (done in VR) about future applications – Hypergrid Business
Overview of VR in grad school Presentation on VR in education
Overview of VR in K12 & grad Presentation of K12 & graduate uses of VR / differences considered
Research on VR & project development Presentation on research published about STEM collaborations in VR
Securing a VR space
Create / acquire
Second Life
Open Sim
Visit
SUNY
Other island
Borrow
Virtual Reality in Online Graduate Instruction: A Seven Year Overview
Eileen O’Connor, Ph.D. - Empire State College [email protected]
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Topic: "Teaching is Dead!" What's your
philosophy of learning?
Date: Wednesday, October 22, 2014 – Noon
Theme: Learning Effectiveness