The Ad Hoc Committee Report discusses maintaining a virtual platform and presence at Empire State College. It provides an overview of current virtual applications across the school, perspectives from research, and recommendations. Specifically, it outlines educational uses of virtual environments within various courses and programs, examples of instructional uses in the Center for Distance Learning including interactive virtual spaces, and potential new opportunities such as a Masters in Learning and Emerging Technology or student showcase within a virtual building. The report recommends leadership and experimentation to develop a viable long-term virtual platform at ESC.

1. Ad Hoc Committee Report
The need for and suggestions
regarding maintaining a virtual
platform and presence at Empire State
College (ESC)

2. Agenda
• Overview of virtual applications and
requirements at ESC
• Research perspectives
• Recommendations for maintaining a viable
virtual platform

3. Educational uses within courses
Center for • Future of Being
Distance Human
Learning • STEM courses
School of • MBA
Graduate • Policy
Studies • Teacher Education
• Virtual building
Centers • Possible Human
Services

4. Masters of Arts in Learning &
Emerging Technology
Courses on virtual learning & community
Student showcase (within a virtual environment)
Incubator on immersive virtual development
Leadership & experimentation

5. INSTRUCTIONAL
EXAMPLES - CDL

6. Victorian home

7. The Future of Being Human

8. Cyborg Guide at the
Transformation Station

9. The Transformation Station

10. Heads Up Display