Learning Innovation Research Group

Learning in Immersive Virtual Worlds

National Workshop

Professor Maggi Savin-Baden

Learning Innovation Research Group

The focus of the day:

To share knowledge and develop collaborative working groups that will create sustainable post workshop outputs.

To learn together

Welcome

Aims1. To increase skills/knowledge of participants across the HE sector

2. To bring new blood into the community - further CETLs and international partners

3. To encourage new interest and capacity in the field of research in immersive worlds

4. To create new communities of interest

PREVIEW

Open Habitat

Moose

Planet

Who is here?

What are the long term gains?

Why bother to stay in touch and work as a community of interest?

1)Sustainability

2)Leading change in HE

3)Supporting and guiding change

4)Offering guidance beyond media headlines

5)Evidence required for future design and teaching

What we hope to achieve together:

1.  Case studies exemplified through machinima

2.  Road map of effective scenarios which emerge from the workshop

3. Guidelines for the sector

4. Resources and demonstrators (guides, machinima, podcasts)

5. Six discipline-based case studies

The future?

CURLIEW(Coventry University Research into Learning in Immersive Educational Worlds)

Leverhulme funded project

To examine staff and students’ conceptions of and decisions about the way in which they teach and learn at the socio-political boundaries of reality.

1. Students’ experiences of learning in immersive worlds.

2. Pedagogical design.

3. Learner identity.

In Summary

We are standing on the threshold of new learning realities

Let’s work

together

to make a

difference