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   How Virtual Worlds will define
  the Future of Language Learning
      Stylianos Mystakidis
  SLanguages, September 28th, 2012
Stylianos Mystakidis
• E-learning Specialist
  Library, University of Patras +
• Adjunct Faculty | Teaching Staff
  > Open University of Catalonia
  (Barcelona, Spain) @ WWW
  > University of Washington (Seattle,
  USA) @ Second Life
• Director of Immersive Worlds Service,
  Learning Agency Network
MIT Personas, 5/5/2011
Total Language Training




   How Virtual Worlds will define
  the Future of Language Learning
      Stylianos Mystakidis
  SLanguages, September 28th, 2012
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  the Future of Language Learning
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   How Virtual Worlds will define
  the Future of Language Learning
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This is my
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Seal of Good Teaching Practice




#mathisi20
Serendipity
Challenge!
why?
More change will happen in
education in the next ten years than
in the past one hundred.

Stephen Heppell (2011)
Quiz
MITx 1st course registrants >
MIT living graduates (122,000)

June 2012
Couros, 2008
Future of Education

      Open, Collaborative


                   Mass


                   Personalised
3D Virtual Worlds
why not
 (yet)?
“When a technology
becomes boring, that’s
when the social effects
 become interesting”.

  Clay Shirky, 2008
Your Avatar can help you
   change yourself.

Blascovich & Bailenson, 2011
Virtual Worlds Sensibilities

        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
3D Instructional Design
•   9 Principles
•   4 Macrostructures
•   11 Learning Archetypes
•   7 Sensibilities

(Kapp/O’Driscoll - Learning in 3D)
3DLE Architecture   Alignment



   Principles


Macrostructures


 Archetypes


  Sensibilities
Smart Learning in 3D

1 Analyze    2 Design         3 Develop
Objectives   Experience       Environment
• Audience   • Activities     • Immersion
• Domain     • Interactions   • Ambience
• Level      • Engagement     • Context




                               Mystakidis, 2012
3D Virtual Immersive
  Social Networks
Gamification
how?
A Teachers’ Taxonomy?
The Law of the Jungle?
Learning Pyramid
Edupreneurship
Education +
Entrepreneurship
Love
                     Share
                 Take Risks
            Experiment
       Experience/Participate
      Communicate
   Learn (PLN/PLE)
Open-up
Virtual Communities of Practice
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Unstoppable
people & teams
identify a goal
that really
matters to them
personally-
They refuse to
give up until that
goal is achieved.

Miami Heat, NBA
Champions 2012
whether you think you can
or you can’t you’re right!

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180
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x10
when was the last time you did
something for the first time?!
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Stylianos Mystakidis
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Total Language Training: How Virtual Worlds will define the Future of Language Learning