A Virtual Learning Environment, Museum, and Library Exhibit - presentation of the paper of Valerie Hill & Stylianos Mystakidis at VSMM 2012 conference, Milan, Italy.

1. UW
Maya
Island
Virtual
Museum

2. Maya
Island
Virtual
Museum
A
Virtual
Learning
Environment,
Museum,
and
Library
Exhibit
-­‐
Valerie
Hill
&
Stylianos
Mystakidis
Stylianos
Mystakidis
mystakidis@upatras.gr

3. Stylianos
Mystakidis
• E-­‐learning
Triathlete
(Design
–
Develop
–
Teach)
@
University
of
Patras,
Greece
• Adjunct
Faculty
@
Open
University
of
Catalonia
European
Master
in
E-­‐learning
Course
Design
&
Teaching
• Teaching
Mentor
@
University
of
Washington,
Certificate
in
Virtual
Worlds

4. Valerie
Hill,
PhD
• Adjunct
instructor
at
TWU
School
of
Library
and
Information
Science
• School
librarian
• Early
adopter
of
virtual
worlds
• Interests:
information
literacy,
human-­‐
computer
interaction,
and
the
impact
of
the
digital
revolution
on
education
and
libraries

5. ?
You
&
Virtual
Worlds
?

6. Library
Vs.
Museum

7. Library
Vs.
Museum
• Content
• Knowledge
• Visitors!
• Education!
• Experience
(?)

8. Virtual
Field
Trips
• Individual
(asynchronous)
vs.
Group
(synchronous)
• Power
of
Presence
in
Virtual
Worlds
– Place
– Social
– Co-­‐presence

10. When

11. Certificate
Program
in
Virtual
Worlds
(#UWVW)
• University
of
Washington
(uw.edu)
• 3
consecutive
courses
(Autumn,
Winter,
Spring):
– Concepts
&
Principles
of
Virtual
Worlds
– Designing
Virtual
Worlds
(Building)
– Programming
Virtual
Worlds
(Scripting)
• Class:
3
hours
per
week
in
SL
for
1o
weeks
• Study
time*:
2-­‐3
h
for
each
class
hour

12. Who

13. UWVW
Class
of
2011
Amythest
Ghost,
Bev
Landar,
Brenna
Cardalines,
Dabici
Straulino,
Irving
Nandahar
,
Loki
Whitefalcon,
Malik
Treves,
Phoenix
Gerhadsen,
Sicily
Zapatero,
Skylar82
Shepherd,
Stylianos
Ling,
TimK
Kling,
Xantho
Muhindra

14. UWVW11
Class
Background
• Nurse
• Librarian
• Singer
• Musician
• Doctor
• Professor
• Veteran
• Consultant
• Teacher
• Psychologist
• Engineer
• Programmer
• Manager
• Entrepreneur

15. Where
-­‐
Second
Life

16. Why
(Maya)

17. How
4
Teams
9
Weeks

18. 3D
Instructional
Design
• 9
Principles
• 4
Macrostructures
• 11
Learning
Archetypes
• 7
Sensibilities
(Kapp/O’Driscoll
-­‐
Learning
in
3D)

19. Smart
Learning
in
3D
1
Analyze
2
Design
3
Develop
Objective
Experience
Environment
• Audience
• Activities
• Immersion
• Domain
• Interactions
• Ambience
• Level
• Engagement
• Context

20. 3DLE
Architecture
Alignment
Principles
Macrostructures
Archetypes
Sensibilities

21. Virtual
Worlds
Sensibili1es
The Sense of Self
The Death of Distance
The Power of Presence
The Sense of Space
The Capability to Co-Create
The Pervasiveness of Practice
The Enrichment of Experience
Kapp,
O’Driscoll,
2010

23. Maya
Science
What
Maya
Medicine
Maya
Mythology
Explorer’s
Cove

26. UW
Maya
Island
@
Info
Island:
Community
Library
Exhibit

27. Future
• Open
Educational
Resource
&
Environment
• We
welcome
Academic
Partnerships
with
Universities
&
Faculty
worldwide
• Chabot
Space
&
Science
Center
(Smithsonian)
• Transfer
to
Opensim
• More
1:
Avalumni
Virtual
Worlds
Gridhopping
• More
2:
Museum
of
Virtual
Media
in
Second
Life
in
cooperation
with
Stanford
University
(Infinite
Reality,
2011)

28. UW
Maya
Island
in
2d
&
3d
Internet
• Maya
Island
Blog
(information,
vide0s)
uwmaya.wordpress.com
• Visit
Maya
Island
in
Second
Life
(3D)
tinyurl.com/uwvw11
…
while
there
is
still
time!!!