F URTHER EXPLORATIONS ON S UPPORTING L EARNING IN V IRTUAL W ORLDS WITH W EB -B ASED L EARNING E...

FURTHER EXPLORATIONS ON SUPPORTING LEARNING IN VIRTUAL WORLDS WITH WEB-BASED LEARNING ENVIRONMENTSDaniel LIVINGSTONEThe 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:

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

WEB IN-WORLD

ACCESSING THE VLE (WEB IN-WORLD)

...OR WORN BY AN AVATAR!

SUPPORT FROM WEB

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

SUPPORTING TUTORIAL GROUPS (OPEN UNIVERSITY)

CONNECTING VW & VLEWith SLOODLE

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)

MIRROR ACTIVITIES IN VW & VLE

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

CLINICAL SIMULATION – SUPPORTING REFLECTION (IMPERIAL)

TRACKING PROGESS IN VW ACTIVITIES (ULSTER & UWS)

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/

SUPPORTING REUSE AND OER

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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