Virtual Learning Spaces

Slide 1: www.skilltodocomesofdoing.com Virtual Learning Spaces Melanie Alt Christopher Pappas Christopher Pittman

Slide 2: www.cpappasonline.com Objectives ๏ What is a Virtual Learning Space? ๏ What are the Virtual Learning Spaces key features? ๏ Examples of Virtual Learning Spaces. ๏ How the Virtual Learning Space affects the future of education?

Slide 3: What is a learning space? ๏ “Learning spaces encompass the full range of places in which learning occur from real to virtual, from classroom to room.” (Malcolm Brown, “Learning Spaces”) ๏ A virtual space is any location where people can meet using networked digital devises.

Slide 4: What are the key features of a learning space? ๏ True-to-life, more of less fidelity to real life models ๏ Synchronous - more or less requiring real-time chatting with other to learn (v. self-paced) ๏ Asynchronous - email discussion threads ๏ Interactive - chat, blogs, wikis ๏ Generative - more or less generating mental models through metaphor - leading to learning outcomes

Slide 5: continued ๏ Dynamic - more or less flexible to revision (vs. permanent) ๏ Situative - more or less supporting a learning community’s existing social framework ๏ Authoritative - more or less enforcing a single speaker’s authority (vs. collaborative) ๏ Institution itself - institution in scope, their implementation involves the institution’s culture, tradition, and mission

Slide 6: Types of Virtual Learning Spaces ๏ Auditorium classrooms ๏ Informal and personal classrooms ๏ Open box classrooms ๏ Self-paced classrooms ๏ Hybrid self-paced and community gathering classrooms

Slide 7: Auditorium classrooms Aimee Weber’s Romanesgue

Slide 8: Auditorium classrooms New Media Consortium

Slide 9: Auditorium classrooms Spaceport Alpha

Slide 10: Auditorium classrooms SL Library

Slide 11: Auditorium classrooms Linden 3rd Birthday discs (rotate in a full circle)

Slide 12: Auditorium classrooms Harvard

Slide 13: Informal and personal classrooms ๏ Pathfinder’s office ๏ Eloise Pasteur tutors on a par bench ๏ Space Alpha officer’s conference room ๏ Harvard exterior classroom

Slide 14: Informal and personal classrooms Pathfinder’s office

Slide 15: Informal and personal classrooms Eloise Pasteur tutors on a park bench

Slide 16: Informal and personal classrooms Spaceport Alpha officer’s conference room

Slide 17: Informal and personal classrooms Harvard Exterior Classroom

Slide 18: Open box classrooms ๏ Campus: Second Life sandbox ๏ Teazer’s Isle classroom

Slide 19: Open box classrooms Campus: Second Life sandbox

Slide 20: Open box classrooms Teazer’s Isle classroom

Slide 21: Self-paced classrooms ๏ Orientation Island path with sign posts ๏ Blacklibrary tour bot ๏ Art Exhibit, Ohio University

Slide 22: Self-paced classrooms Orientation Island path with sign posts

Slide 23: Self-paced classrooms Blacklibrary tour bot

Slide 24: Self-paced classrooms Art Exhibit, Ohio University

Slide 25: Hybrid self-paced and community gathering classrooms ๏ Gazebo Welcome centers (with greeters) ๏ College Green, Ohio University

Slide 26: Hybrid self-paced and community gathering classrooms Gazebo Welcome centers (with greeters)

Slide 27: Hybrid self-paced and community gathering classrooms College Green, Ohio University

Slide 28: Future of Education ๏ Unlimited Wireless Access ๏ Smaller Technology Devices ๏ Home Schooling ๏ The Education Divide ๏ Our opinion of the future education

Slide 29: Wireless Access • Wi-fi location will become available in more places. • Already have Wi-fi ready devices in iPods and PDA’s • Schools, restaurants, hotels, etc

Slide 30: Technology Devices • Devices will become smaller, faster, and will include more memory. •Devices will be available and affordable (Slowinsky, 2002, p. 18)

Slide 31: Home Schooling • “Education will take place in a variety of setting, including cyberspace and virtual reality” (Sanborn, et al., 2005) • “By 2020, the home console will teach children to read, write, calculate and speak other languages without parents or in-class teachers” (Eskow, 1998)

Slide 32: The Educational Divide ๏ “A class system based on education levels will have developed” (Sanborn, et al., 2005) ๏ There will be a divide between the college-educated and the manual laborers.

Slide 33: Our Opinion of the Future ๏ Virtual Learning Spaces should be student-centered and focus on each individual learner ๏ Universities will still exist, however, the style of learning will change

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