TEL Seminar: Cluster V “Emerging Technologies”

Sergey Sosnovsky

Summary

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‣Experimental Technologies

‣Technologies developed elsewhere

‣Less coherent results, less mature systems

‣List of Topics:‣ Intelligent Learning Games

‣Ubiquitous Learning Environments and Mobile e-Learning

‣ Augmented and Virtual Reality for e-Learning

‣ Semantic Web Technologies for e-Learning

‣ Pedagogical Agents

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Intelligent Learning Games

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‣Games are characterized by:•Fantasy•Rules/Goals•Sensory Stimuli•Challenge•Mystery•Control

Leverage

Ubiquitous Learning Environments and Mobile e-Learning

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‣Many different ways to a access information, many different devices

‣ People stay connected everywhere all the time

Augmented and Virtual Reality for e-Learning

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‣Virtual reality:

‣Immersive experience

‣Access to places and situations not available in reality

‣Augmented reality:

‣Merging virtual and real worlds

Semantic Web Technologies for e-Learning

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‣ SW is aimed at giving online information meaning

‣ It is based on a set of well-defined standards

‣Many e-Learning problems can be solved with the help of SW: metadata standardization, content and model sharing and reuse, access to other SW components and technologies, etc.

Pedagogical Agents

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‣ ..avatars, virtual characters

‣ Learning/teaching is a social process => a systems needs a personality

‣Benefits:

‣ Increased motivation

‣ Increased sense of comfort

‣ Stimulation of essential learning behaviours

‣ Enhanced flow of information and communication

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‣Diversity:

‣ virtual vs. robotic

‣ animated vs. static

‣ teaching vs. teachable