The document describes an online 3D virtual environment called the Arts Metaverse being developed at the University of British Columbia. It aims to provide an immersive collaborative space for students to reconstruct and experience ancient civilizations. The environment uses Open Croquet, an open-source platform, allowing students to build virtual models piece-by-piece and review each other's work. The goal is to enhance experiential and visual learning about history, culture, and artifacts through a participatory virtual community.

3. An On-line Environment For The Interactive Study of The Ancient World Why... Reconstruction : Experiential Learning Immersion : learning about e.g. architecture, but also social and cultural meaning/values of physical environment Interaction and engagement – perspective taking

6. Early Days – MOD on Game Engines

7. Simulations in UT2004

8. Model Construction -> Archive -> Simulation

9. Machu Picchu - Maps

10. Machu Picchu - Overview

11. Machu Picchu - Photos

12. Machu Picchu - Sketches

13. Machu Picchu - Modeling

14. Machu Picchu - Texturing

15. Piece-by-piece Reconstruction

16. Replicating Texture (Drawing Cracks)

17. Model + Photo Realistic Texture

18. Machu Picchu - Construction

19. Machu Picchu - Rendering

20. Ancient Egypt - Maps

21. Nisga'a Village - Maps

22. Nisga'a - Photos

23. Nisga'a - Sketches

24. Nisga'a - Modeling

25. Nisga'a - Texturing

26. Nisga'a - Construction

30. Ancient Spaces Editor Run Editor

36. Dwell On It - http://dwellonit.blogspot.com/search/label/people Nevillehobson blog - http://www.nevillehobson.com/2006/06/24/get-a-second-life-now/

37. Why are we doing all this?

38. Where are the Learners?

42. Moving towards On-line Learning 3.0 Online Learning 3.0 Community/Context-Centered Online Learning 2.0 Student-Centered Online Learning 1.0 Course-Centered Proprietary Enterprise LMS/CMSs Application Services Open Source Open Source 3D Meta-Medium

43. Open Croquet In order to reach online learning 3.0, we turned to existing multi-user simulation engines, Second Life was the first attempt:

52. Arts Metaverse Demo http://ancient.arts.ubc.ca Arts Metaverse in Croquet 1.0