Keynote presentation given at Oakland University's eCornicopia conference, June 10, 2010

1. My Second Life didn’t turn out the way I thought it would! Managing expectations for teaching and learning in virtual worlds Ken Hudson Virtual World Design Centre, Loyalist College Oakland University – June 10, 2010

2. Loyalist College

4. Desktop Virtual Worlds Revolution

6. Magic Happy Learning Land

9. Typical Canadian Landscape

10. All of my saws that don’t work

11. All of my saws that don’t work

12. All of my saws that don’t work

13. The tool works:It’s the operator who is broken!

15. Virtual World Differentiators 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 Adapted from Learning in 3D – Kapp/ O’Driscoll

16. San Jose Tech Museum

21. Stubborn Adopter Female 25-30 20/20 vision Not focused on fun or interesting experiences Uses Web 1.0 Does not game often Source: San Jose State University study of 400 graduate students

23. Easily converted adopter Male 41-45 Vision problems Games weekly Uses Web 2.0, like FB or blog daily-weekly Source: San Jose State University study of 400 graduate students

25. They Became What They Beheld Edmund Snow Carpenter

26. Media are environments

27. We are their content

28. …they engulf us, tattoo us..

29. We are immersed

30. Movies and Television

31. Sports

32. Music

33. Video Games

34. We are our game markers

36. Mirror Neurons

37. Chameleon Effect

38. “Our virtual identity is not separate from our physical identity.” Jeremy N. Bailenson April 4, 2008 Chronicle of Higher Education

39. Proteus Effect: We infer our behavior and attitudes from our avatar

40. Behavior transfers from virtual world to real life

41. We modify our attitudes by observing our own behavior

49. Canadian Border Simulation

50. Port of Entry Process

51. Canadian Border Lansdowne

52. Second Life Border Simulation

53. Border Crossing Interviews

54. “More realistic than traditional role plays.”

55. “As close as it could be to real life.”

56. “Seeing hearing doing…we were actually there.”

57. CBSA Pilot

58. Federal Virtual World Challenge

59. Loyalist College 37% increase in grades over 2 years CBSA Recruits 39% increase in success at testing milestone Increased Confidence Accelerated Learning Pace

60. America’s Army in-game Medic Training

61. Pro Football Imitates Madden Game

62. Publication of Results Journal of Virtual Worlds Research Volume 2, Number 1:Pedagogy, Education and Innovation in 3-D Virtual Worlds Linden Lab Case Study Virtual World Simulation Training Prepares Real Guards on the US-Canadian Border: Loyalist College in Second Life Learning in 3D: Bringing a new dimension to enterprise learning and collaboration by Karl Kapp and Tony O’Driscoll Handbook of research on virtual environments for corporate education: Employee learning and solutions Forthcoming 2010: Online and Social Networking Communities: A Best Practice Guide for Educators by Karen Keen

63. Akron University – Psychiatric Nursing

64. Akron University – Psychiatric Nursing

65. University Health Network

66. Naval Postgraduate School

67. Metaverse Roadmap

68. Technologies = Cultures

69. Ken Hudson Managing Director Virtual World Design Centre Loyalist College SL: Kenny Hubble Twitter: kennyhubble kenhudson@infinitespaces.ca