jace hargis goksel second life virtual world
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Assessment in Second Life
Jace Hargis, PhDUniversity of the Pacific, USA
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Nil Goksel Canbek, MAAnadolu University, Turkey
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Agenda• What is SL
• Literature
• Major Players
• Main Objective is to explore assessment instruments & analyze interactions by focusing on specific examples
• Examples
• Top Education Sites in SL
• Advantages of SL
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Second Life
• Avatar-based virtual community[avatara is Sanskrit, symbolizes the conception of a human (Snow Crash, 1992)]
• 3-D representation of a person using SL
• Expressive of real identity & self-conception (Wolfendale, 2007)
• Millions of avatars on different islands
• Constructive, self-regulating interactive
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Brief Review of Literature
• Informal Learning - museums, zoos, aquaria, Internet; internal motivation, variable content, un-sequenced, attendance voluntary, objects, all ages & diversity
• Information Processing - code, STM-LTM, retrieved
• Constructivism -autonomy, inquiry, dialogue, divergent, higher level questions; reflection, abstraction and an integrated thought process
• Self-Regulated Learn-self-observation; judgment; response
• Formative Assessment - redirect concepts; part of instruction; needed to adjust teaching & learning; (rubrics) (think/pair/share, one minute paper, SRS, concept map)
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Major Players
• Linden Labs
• SLED
• NMC
• ISTE
• Open University
• Ivory Tower of Prims
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Linden Labs
Founded in 1999 by Philip Rosedale to create a new form of shared experience known as Second Life®. The Grid™ provides the platform where the world resides and offers tools for educators to develop a virtual presence. Headquartered in San Francisco, Linden Lab has over 330 employees across the world.
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Education in SL
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SL for Educators (SLED) https://lists.secondlife.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/educators
• Linden Lab's Learning Inworld Blog
• Second Life Researchers List
• Virtual Worlds Ed Roundtable every Tuesday
• Educators Archives
• Calendar of Educational Events
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SL for Educator Calendar of Events
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New Media Consortium
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International Society for Tech in Ed
• “advances excellence in T&L through innovative and effective uses of technology;
• Improving T&L learning by advancing the effective use of tech.”
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Open University• Initiative for open learning apps in SL;
• Contributing to quality, accredited education in South Africa;
• Launched in 1997 for educating teachers;
• Expanded into a business;
• Model of customer service and support;
• Over 60,000 learners in 15 years.
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Ivory Tower of Prims
• Modules explaining how to build
• Easy to understand
• Useful note cards
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Main Objective
• Explore current assessment instruments within the scope of learner-course owner interactions and analyze cyber interactions by focusing on specific samples on SL
• Non-existent, although need is apparent.
• Currently, only a handful of methods to help students assess progress in higher ed islands
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Higher Ed Assessment Ex
"Assessment" in SL produced 39 results in July 2010. By Sep, number was only 41.
• Transforming Assess, U of Adelaide
• The Assessment Group
• EDTC 6325, grad students, U of Texas
• EDUCAUSE Virtual Worlds Group
• Central Higher Educator Cooperative
• Global Learning Forum
• Teaching and Learning Online
• Assessing Technology in Biology Ed
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Central Higher Ed Cooperative
• Experimental arena for assess of SL apps
• Think tank of experiments and risk-taking, which foster other risk and ultimately lead to open source material
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Ensemble Pavilion: Ed Co-op
• Actively teach & research in SL, articles from a variety of disciplines & approaches.
• May assist skeptics of SL & other non-traditional venues for learning.
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Other Examples• Use-ability Lab
• Science School
• Genome Island
• American Chemical Society
• Classic Greece
• Globe Theatre
• World Language
• Sistine Chapel
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U of Central FL Useability Lab
• Students virtually walk up, respond to questions -provides responses, assistance and further questions
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Science School
• Formative Assessment
• Large Molecules
• Manipulate objects
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Genome Island
• Mendelian inheritance
• Gene pool
• Prokaryotic/eukaryotic genome
• College biology
• Hundreds of interactive objects
• Forty experiments generate analyzable data
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American Chemical Society• Quizzes
• Interactive
• Games
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Classic GreeceCompare past/present architectural structures
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Globe Theatre• Be an actor in the time of Shakespeare
• Theatre scene changes are instantaneous
• Rehearsals, playbills, tickets…
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World Languages• Authentic learning of world language with
native speakers
• U of the Pacific has created a maze, where students respond to questions in Chinese to open doors.
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Sistine Chapel
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Summary
• 3-D multicultural source providing cyber interactions
• Virtual close connection, digital groups construct own meaning
• Effective interaction for virtual/communal collaborative learning
• Informal learning & user engagement
• Andragogical & communicational design for positive interaction
• Literature & resources on assessment tools in-world
• Highly interactive, constructive learning environment, allows engagement, reflection & self-regulation
• Empowers creation of dynamic environments
• Explore assessment instruments & analyze interactions
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Advantages of SL
• Offers universal, global access
• Ideal for distance learning
• Create scenarios not possible in real world
• Very Green
• More than just delivering learning
• Creates a base for high quality education
• Applicable to a wide range of education
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Thank You
Dr. Jace Hargis
Nil Goksel Canbek