Holyrood Park: a virtual campus for Edinburgh

Holyrood Park: a virtual campus for Edinburgh Hamish Macleod The University of Edinburgh [email_address]

new programme, launched this session (2006 / 07) supported by the Principal’s e-learning fund part-time, fully online learning aimed at professionals in HE, FE and training fully supported, collaborative, flexible up to 30 students per semester

constructivist / constructionist context
tasks (if engaging)
experiences (if (personally / socially) relevant)
reflection
appropriate disequilibrium (major or minor)
new learning, and knowledge construction

Key players
Siân Bayne
Richard Coyne
Rory Ewins
Ian Graham
Fiona Littleton
Jen Ross
James Stewart
Austin Tate
. . . . . . .

Second Life
ActiveWorlds NewHorizone Dreamscape Sony Home The Sims Online Moove There blaxxun Contact Dreamville Traveler Adobe Atmosphere Entropia Universe Red Light Center EverQuest Ultima Online Lineage World of Warcraft Guild Wars Cybertown Peace City

why choose Second Life?
cross platform
openness and neutrality
not a “game” but “playful”
like, and unlike, Real Life
manifest involvement with education
existing participants
position of the developers

Virtual Campus for the University of Edinburgh?

Holyrood Park What’s in a name?

©Hulton Getty. Licensor www.scran.ac.uk King David 1 (1084 - 1153) King of Scots (1124 - 1153) Son of Malcolm Canmore & Queen Margaret Established (among many other monasteries) in 1128 ” the church of the Holy Rood of Edinburgh . . . ” ©Crown Copyright reproduced courtesy of Historic Scotland. Licensor www.scran.ac.uk.

Holyrood Park
place where rich resources exist
where interesting things have happened, and continue to happen
where people can go to have certain sorts of experiences
great place to play

for the University?
presence in an important media space
promotion / marketing of the institution
point of access
new opportunities for
learning & teaching
research
development
area for community
forging new partnerships / collaborations

educational potential
re-defining of “learning spaces”
physical and virtual
highlighting active learning
student production as well as consumption
highlighting issues of identity
learning as becoming
highlighting learning as socially grounded
digital co-presence
imagination and fantasy
likeness to, and isolation from, the real

issues for us
legal dimension
relationship between institution and service provider
“ data processor” or “data controller”
risk assessment & guidance; liability
system requirements
processor
bandwidth
firewalls etc
accessibility
problems and potentials
assessment
chance to break a few molds

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