This document discusses various factors to consider when designing virtual learning environments. It addresses personal, technical, and pedagogical building blocks. Examples of basic typologies like beaches and campus replications are provided. The document explores how the visual design of different environment types like cafes, canteens, dwellings, offices, and operating theaters can impact the learning outcome. It suggests that virtual environments should be engaging, relevant to the content, easy to navigate, and allow a focus on the learning outcome rather than visual fidelity or cost. The key questions to ask include determining the desired learning outcome and how detailed the environment needs to be.

1. Design to Developin Virtual Worlds Kate Boardman & KattanHurnung VWBPE’10

2. Building Blocks Personal Technical Pedagogic Design

3. Basic Typology Beach & cushions Campus replicator « Nowwhat? » ...the dangerousones... (the oneswith the ideas...)

4. Visual Environments Whatdoes... ...look like?

5. Does it matter… what... a café a canteen a dwelling an office an operating theatre ...looks like?

7. ... Whatmakes a French café?

8. Café

9. Café

10. Café

12. ... Whatdoes a (factory) canteenlook like?

13. Does it matter? What... a café a canteen a dwelling an office ...looks like?

14. Does it matter? What... a café a canteen a dwelling an office ...looks like?

18. Dwelling Just an individualdwelling Whatdoes a «dwelling» look like?

19. Dwelling Just an individual dwelling 

20. Dwelling Just an individual dwelling 

21. Dwelling Just an individualdwelling

22. Does it matter… what... something/anything ...looks like? How canthis affect the learningoutcome?

23. Text/Image/Learning Outcome Canteen Dwelling Café Detailed text scenario provided Staff care what it looks like Affects the learning outcome

24. Text/Image/Learning Outcome Canteen Dwelling Café Detailed text scenario provided   Staff care what it looks like  Affects the learning outcome

25. Text/Image/Learning Outcome Canteen Dwelling Café Detailed text scenario provided     Staff care what it looks like   Affects the learning outcome

26. Text/Image/Learning Outcome Canteen Dwelling Café Detailed text scenario provided       Staff care what it looks like    Affects the learning outcome

27. Does it matter… what... an office ...looks like?

28. Office Desk Filing cabinet Diary Computer Files Phone...

29. Does it matter? What... an office ...looks like?

30. Does it matter? What... an office ...looks like?

31. Text/Image/Learning Outcome Dwelling Canteen Café Office Detailed text scenario provided    ()    () Staff care what it looks like    () Affects the learning outcome

32. Operating Theatre University of Kansas

33. Text/Image/Learning Outcome Dwelling Canteen Theatre Café Office Detailed text scenario provided    () ()  ()   () Staff care what it looks like ()    () Affects the learning outcome

35. Engagement

36. Relevant

39. What’s the learningoutcome of this?

40. How detaileddoesit (really) need to be?

41. Do you have real/virtual images, or only mental ones?