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Maximising the effectiveness of virtual worlds in teaching and learning (cevw09)
University of Strathclyde, 16 January 2009
Eduserve/CETIS meeting 16 January,
2009 University of Strathclyde
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Eduserve/CETIS meeting 16 January,
2009 University of Strathclyde
Themes for the day What are the teaching situations for which Virtual Worlds are
best suited?
What are the policy issues which arise from using Virtual Worlds for Learning and Teaching?
What are the technical characteristics/constraints of Virtual Worlds which have an impact on their use in Learning and Teaching?
(tag: cevw09/#cevw09) SL co-location: Virtual Congress Centre
Eduserve/CETIS meeting 16 January,
2009 University of Strathclyde
Agenda 10.30 Welcome and introductions 10.45 Who's teaching? Who's learning? The state of Second Life in UK HE
and FE. John Kirriemuir, Virtual World Watch 11.25 Tea and coffee 11.40 Approaching teaching and learning in Second Life. Sheila Webber,
University of Sheffield 12.20 Virtual worlds and education: how can they fit together? Fiona
Littleton, University of Edinburgh 13.00 Lunch 13.50 Jumping virtual hurdles. Ren Reynolds, The Virtual Policy Network 14.30 Tea and coffee 14.50 Exploring unclaimed educational spaces: dimensions of practice
emerging from the Schome Park Programme. Peter Twining, Open University 15.30 Sticking to your principles. David White, University of Oxford 16.10 Q & A session. Sheila MacNeill, JISC CETIS
16.30 Close
Eduserve/CETIS meeting 16 January,
2009 University of Strathclyde
Overview: JISC CETIS
JISC Innovation Centre providing strategic advice to JISC, supporting its
development programmes Representing JISC on international standardisation
initiatives Work with the wider educational community to
facilitate the use of standards-based eLearning, especially through Special Interest Groups
Supports the current JISC eLearning Programme
Eduserve/CETIS meeting 16 January,
2009 University of Strathclyde
SIGs and working groups Existing SIGs:
Accessibility
Assessment
Educational Content (EC)
E-Portfolio SIG
Enterprise SIG
Metadata and Digital
Repositories (MDR)
Lifelong Learning Group
Pedagogy Forum
Working groups: Short life span, specific
outputs, smaller in scale than SIGs
Responding to needs of community
E.g. Semantic technologies in
teaching and learning; widgets in education cloud computing & institutions
Eduserve/CETIS meeting 16 January,
2009 University of Strathclyde
Further information Websites: http://jisc.cetis.ac.uk/ http://www.eduserv.org.uk/foundation http://wiki.cetis.ac.uk/CETIS-Eduserv-VW2009 Tag for today: cevw09 Online evaluation: http://www.polldaddy.com/s/FB5DEE5C30F8F9FE/
Email: [email protected]