Maximising the effectiveness of virtual worlds in teaching and learning ( cevw09 ) University of Strathclyde, 16 January 2009

Housekeeping

Themes for the day What are the teaching situations for which Virtual Worlds are best suited? What are the policy issues which arise from using Virtual Worlds for Learning and Teaching? What are the technical characteristics/constraints of Virtual Worlds which have an impact on their use in Learning and Teaching? (tag: cevw09/ #cevw09 ) SL co-location: Virtual Congress Centre

What are the teaching situations for which Virtual Worlds are best suited?

What are the policy issues which arise from using Virtual Worlds for Learning and Teaching?

What are the technical characteristics/constraints of Virtual Worlds which have an impact on their use in Learning and Teaching?

(tag: cevw09/ #cevw09 )

SL co-location: Virtual Congress Centre

Agenda 10.30 Welcome and introductions 10.45 Who's teaching? Who's learning? The state of Second Life in UK HE and FE. John Kirriemuir, Virtual World Watch 11.25 Tea and coffee 11.40 Approaching teaching and learning in Second Life. Sheila Webber, University of Sheffield 12.20 Virtual worlds and education: how can they fit together? Fiona Littleton, University of Edinburgh 13.00 Lunch 13.50 Jumping virtual hurdles. Ren Reynolds, The Virtual Policy Network 14.30 Tea and coffee 14.50 Exploring unclaimed educational spaces: dimensions of practice emerging from the Schome Park Programme. Peter Twining, Open University 15.30 Sticking to your principles. David White, University of Oxford 16.10 Q & A session. Sheila MacNeill, JISC CETIS 16.30 Close

10.30 Welcome and introductions

10.45 Who's teaching? Who's learning? The state of Second Life in UK HE and FE. John Kirriemuir, Virtual World Watch

11.25 Tea and coffee

11.40 Approaching teaching and learning in Second Life. Sheila Webber, University of Sheffield

12.20 Virtual worlds and education: how can they fit together? Fiona Littleton, University of Edinburgh

13.00 Lunch

13.50 Jumping virtual hurdles. Ren Reynolds, The Virtual Policy Network

14.30 Tea and coffee

14.50 Exploring unclaimed educational spaces: dimensions of practice emerging from the Schome Park Programme. Peter Twining, Open University

15.30 Sticking to your principles. David White, University of Oxford

16.10 Q & A session. Sheila MacNeill, JISC CETIS

16.30 Close

Overview: JISC CETIS JISC Innovation Centre providing strategic advice to JISC, supporting its development programmes Representing JISC on international standardisation initiatives Work with the wider educational community to facilitate the use of standards-based eLearning, especially through Special Interest Groups Supports the current JISC eLearning Programme

JISC Innovation Centre

providing strategic advice to JISC, supporting its development programmes

Representing JISC on international standardisation initiatives

Work with the wider educational community to facilitate the use of standards-based eLearning, especially through Special Interest Groups

Supports the current JISC eLearning Programme

SIGs and working groups Existing SIGs : Accessibility Assessment Educational Content (EC) E-Portfolio SIG Enterprise SIG Metadata and Digital Repositories (MDR) Lifelong Learning Group Pedagogy Forum Working groups : Short life span, specific outputs, smaller in scale than SIGs Responding to needs of community E.g. Semantic technologies in teaching and learning; widgets in education cloud computing & institutions

Existing SIGs :

Accessibility

Assessment

Educational Content (EC)

E-Portfolio SIG

Enterprise SIG

Metadata and Digital Repositories (MDR)

Lifelong Learning Group

Pedagogy Forum

Working groups :

Short life span, specific outputs, smaller in scale than SIGs

Responding to needs of community

E.g.

Semantic technologies in teaching and learning;

widgets in education

cloud computing & institutions

Further information Websites: http: //jisc . cetis .ac.uk/ http://www.eduserv.org.uk/foundation http://wiki.cetis.ac.uk/CETIS-Eduserv-VW2009 Tag for today: cevw09 Online evaluation : http://www.polldaddy.com/s/FB5DEE5C30F8F9FE/ Email: s.macneill@strath.ac.uk

Websites:

http: //jisc . cetis .ac.uk/ http://www.eduserv.org.uk/foundation

http://wiki.cetis.ac.uk/CETIS-Eduserv-VW2009

Tag for today: cevw09

Online evaluation : http://www.polldaddy.com/s/FB5DEE5C30F8F9FE/

Email: s.macneill@strath.ac.uk