Immersive technologies such as serious games, virtual worlds, and social networks will be used for continuous assessment, lifelong learning, career development, and personal profiles. These technologies provide an engaging space for discretionary time and can become a portable lifelong personal coach through games, social networks, and cloud computing. Successful immersive technologies require expertise from multiple disciplines to provide personalized learning through integrated games, assessment, and intelligent lifelong profiling within collaborative communities.

1. Immersive Technologies for Recruitment, Assessment and Lifelong Learning Moscow Edutech2011 David Wortley FRSA

2. Key Takeaway Immersive technologies will be used for continuous formative assessment, lifelong learning, career development and e-portfolios / profiles We are entering the era of the portable lifelong personal coach / mentor facilitated by serious games, social networks, virtual learning environments and cloud computing

3. Topics Definition and role of Serious Games and Immersive Technologies Example Applications Future Challenges and Trends Summary and Conclusion

4. Definition and Role of Serious Games and Immersive Technologies

5. Immersive Technologies Games Virtual Worlds Social Networks Immersive Technologies provide an attractive, accessible and affordable space in which to devote our discretionary time, attention and money

6. Serious Games and Immersive Experiences Involve Challenges, Rules, Rewards, Physical and Virtual Worlds, Social Networks, Assessment, Profiles, Personal Development and Commercial Exploitation

7. Serious Games are Our Personal Choice Serious Games are where we choose to spend our discretionary time, attention and finances which makes them very important commercially and developmentally

8. Attractive, Accessible, Affordable Immersive technologies focus on attractiveness (engagement), accessibility (no barriers) and affordability (cost and time)

9. The Importance of Immersive Technologies Immersive Technologies are important because they provide an ideal platform for engagement, motivation, assessment, training needs analysis, profiling, coaching and development

10. What are the Key Features ? Personalisation / relevance Interface and Ubiquity Cost in time and money Ability to control / shape Richness of experience Challenge / motivation Intrinsic and extrinsic rewards

11. Example Applications

12. Learning through Games Watch, copy, get feedback, iterate and share

13. From Cradle to Grave Immersive technologies will engage, motivate, assess, adjust and profile

14. Profiling and Needs Analysis Identifying strengths and weaknesses, profiling and personalising needs

15. Building Knowledge Communities Intel’s Planet Blue is an internal social network

16. Connecting the Physical & Virtual Virtual visualisation of real time data

17. The Digital Alter Ego The mobile device will become our digital mentor

18. Future Challenges and Trends

19. In a Nutshell Successful Immersive technologies need multiple disciplines

20. Common Language ? Experts speak in different languages

21. Expectations Generation Y learners expect high levels of engagement

22. Expectations Clients expect value for money and modest costs

23. Likely Solution Software which has embedded expertise and resources and partners to provide pedagogical and storytelling skills

24. Simulations linked to real data

25. New Applications Using Sensor interfaces to control learning activities

26. Summary and Conclusion

27. Key Takeaway Immersive technologies will be used for continuous formative assessment, lifelong learning, career development and e-portfolios / profiles We are entering the era of the portable lifelong personal coach / mentor facilitated by serious games, social networks, virtual learning environments and cloud computing

28. What will this mean in practice ? Personalised learning Integrated games-based learning & assessment Intelligent persistent lifelong profiling Collaborative peer to peer learning Learning by discovery of new knowledge Virtual worlds linked to real world data Tutor/Mentor/Coach tools for content management Learning communities

29. Questions

30. Immersive Technologies for Recruitment, Assessment and Lifelong Learning Moscow Edutech2011 David Wortley FRSA