A keynote address by Dr. Cynthia Calongne or the International Conference on Media in Education (iCoME) 2023 on August 16, 2023, which appears August 17, 2023 by invitation of the College of Education at Wenzhou University, China. Many thanks to the Organizing Committee, Bert Kimura, and Curtis HO at TCC at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. The session illustrates the Metaverse, how we teach and learn, and the transformation for online and campus education.

1. Cynthia Calongne
Lyr Lobo in the Metaverse
Colorado Technical University, USA
iCoME 2023

4.  Identity
 Presence
 Awareness of others
 3D spaces
 Deep immersion
 Learning experiences
 Travel between worlds
Media is the heart of the Metaverse
Qualities Characteristics
Self
Class
Situated
Learning
Field Trips

5. In a volcano at
Mount Vesuvius
Teaching scripting
for educators who
are not
programmers
Our professional
identity
Lyr Lobo
is ready to teach!

6. Our Identity
in the
Metaverse
Virtual World
Education Roundtable
in 2006-2007
Shared co-presence

7. What my friends think I do What my family thinks I do What the world thinks I do
What my Dean thinks I do What I think I do What I actually do

8. Remapping Mental Models of Collaboration Using
Immersive 3D Design Thinking Studios in
Cultural, Behavioral, and Social Considerations in
Electronic Collaboration
Recent Advances in Applying Identity and
Society Awareness to Virtual Learning
Gemeinschaft Identity in a Gesellschaft Metaverse in
The Immersive Internet: Reflections on the Entangling of the
Virtual with Society, Politics and the Economy
Integrating an Awareness of Selfhood and Society
into Virtual Learning

9. Game simulations transform education in
the Metaverse into learning experiences
 Engaging
 Imaginative
 Stimulating
 Emotional Intelligence
Learning in 3D

10. Awareness of self
Self-regulation
Intrinsic motivation
Empathy
Social skills
Emotional Intelligence

12. Ready Player One
Movie by Stephen Spielberg (2018)
Warner Bros. Pictures
Ready Player One
Book by Ernest Cline (2011)
Artwork by Florian de Gesincourt
https://www.artstation.com/degesart
Immersive Learning

13. Identity in the Metaverse

14. Access & Security
 API
 Blockchain
eCommerce
 Non-fungible tokens (NFTs)
 Cryptocurrency
Media
 AI
 VR
 MUVEs
 3D games
 Virtual worlds
 360-degree video
 Extended reality (XR)
Metaverse Technologies
Will Wright (The Sims, SimCity, and Spore)
Takes you inside VOXverse
Gala Games (2022, October 20)
https://youtu.be/HiEQS__gDv0
NFTs for a persistent identity

15. What can we learn from simulating
space travel and life on Mars?
The Mars Expedition,
$25,000 Grand Prize Winner in the
Federal Virtual World Challenge

16. Presence & the Awareness of Others
in the Mars Expedition
Hal from 2001: A Space Odyssey

17. Features gifts
for space
travel
Translator for
25 Spoken & 5
Fantasy
Languages
Learning in
fantastic
spaces
Klingon (Star Trek: The Next Generation), Na’vi (the movie Avatar), Elven
(The Lord of the Rings & the Grey Company) & Faerie language phrases

18. How We Learn
Expressive
Constructivism in
the Metaverse
Learning Paradigms
&
World Views by
Education Theorists
Richard Millwood’s
Dissertation
http://phd.richardmillwood.n
et/en/theoretical-and-
conceptual-framework

19. To transform education in the Metaverse
Should we design 3D games & MMORPGs for learning?
Massive multiplayer online roleplaying games (MMORPGs)
Benefits: Increased engagement
Balance the challenge with the skill level to achieve Flow

21. https://janemcgonigal.com/learn-me/
CTU students design a game simulation
Benefits of Game-based Learning

23. Wright, W. (2010, April 1). Games as tools for science and society. Defense GameTech Keynote Address.
https://www.slideshare.net/guesta79ddf9/orando2010-5

24. Learning simulations
A holodeck hosts
scenes that appear
when needed and
deletes when no
longer needed
To rez is to render or
make a 3D object or
scene appear
Students create
projects that we host
on a holodeck
Concept from Star
Trek: The Next
Generation

25. Dr. Constance Steinkuehler’s dissertation research on literacy in the World of Warcraft

26. Ancient Spaces
1st year Greek Civilization students
model ancient spaces for
cooperatively designing a 3D learning
environment
A joint Oxford & Univ of British
Columbia project presented at the
New Media Consortium in 2006-2007
What can we do to build expansive
3D worlds that bridge communities &
technologies?
Other Metaverse Worlds

27. Presence
Experiential learning
MellaniuM is a virtual
world with high resolution
images for situated
learning
Joe Rigby (2014) 3D
museum in MellaniuM

28. Class Projects in Development, Stacked Vertically

29. Teaching physics
using a science simulation
Which lands first,
the hammer or the feather?
Players click the ground beneath
the astronaut’s feet
Green = Earth
Red = Mars
Grey = Moon
Does the hammer or the feather
hit the ground first if you are on
the Earth, Mars, or the Moon?

30. Single player or
multiplayer educational
roleplaying games
(SPERG, MPERG)
Pinball, medical roleplay
with AI bots, team
building, and a plane
crash simulation
Above: A medical
learning simulation

31. Musical instruments and fantasy
landscapes for deep immersion

32. Game simulations
 Mahjong game
 Cooperative play
 GNU scripts for
learning how to
render, animate,
and play the game

40. Ikigai
Virtual Reality Game Meeting Space
3D Content from the Sakurajima grid
in OpenSimulator
Mesh objects & scenes loaded into
Unity for creating the Meta VR app

41. The Intelligent Metaverse
A scholarly book to be published in 2023 by Ramesh Ramloll, PhD

43. https://conference.opensimulator.org/

44. Questions?
Dr. Cynthia Calongne
Lyr Lobo in the Metaverse
Calongne@gmail.com
https://bit.ly/ccalongne
https://www.slideshare.net/lyrlobo/presentations
Student Projects from a 2013 class
https://youtu.be/35_QiUT8Fn0
Hostage Rescue Game Simulation video
https://youtu.be/HGG9RQKrqlM