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Immersive collaborative learning: Project Persephone

Nuket Savaskan Nowlan, web.alive development community manager and founder of 3D Virtual Crafting  along with Nursing Professors Eleanor Riesen and Michelle Morley from the Faculty of Health, Public Safety and Community Studies at Algonquin College in Ottawa, Ontario present how Algonquin College used web.alive [...]

Upatras Open Workshop on Information Literacy

Open Workshop on Information Literacy

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The University of Patras’ Library & Information Services (LIS) organizes and invites all interested to participate in the Open Workshop on Information Literacy.
The Open Workshop on Information Literacy – http://openworkshop.pbworks.com is an innovative blended learning course combining attendance-based learning with [...]

Transforming Virtual World Learning

Randy Hinrichs, CEO of 2b3d, is presenting his book «Transforming Virtual World Learning», relevant 3d projects and research data about Virtual Words, Virtual and Augmented Reality in Learning. The book is a must read according to a New Media Consortium (NMC) review.
The event took place on October 13th at Train for Success, Gronstedt Group island, [...]

The Start of a New 3D Learning Saga

Yesterday was the special premiere of University of Washington’s Certificate Program in Virtual Worlds, 2012 Class.
At the magnificent UW Avalumni Island, old and new friends, participants from all over the world with various cultures, disciplines and experience in virtual worlds started discovering and experiencing the potential of Second Life.
Mentor Team, Sicily Zapatero and Stylianos Ling, [...]

4 Challenges for Leaders in Virtual Worlds

Education thought leader, author of provoking books and top educational simulation designer Clark Aldrich delivered a sensational speech at the 2011 Class graduation ceremony of the University of Washington’s Virtual Worlds Certificate program.
Clark reveals the potential by defining challenges for pioneers in Immersive Learning Environments (Virtual Worlds). Watch the speech on youtube or vimeo. Clark [...]

Educational Success in Virtual Worlds

This week-end don’t miss the very interesting SLanguages virtual conference. SLanguages  is the 5th FREE annual symposium focusing on language learning in virtual worlds and game-based learning taken place in Second Life.
Even if you’re not a language teacher, join us for an enjoyable experience & discussion on pedagogical innovation in virtual worlds.
More specific, as part [...]

UWVW 2011 Graduation Ceremony & Spring Show

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On June 9th, Thursday 6 pm PST/SLT, we will have our in-world Graduation celebrating the University of Washington’s Certificate in Virtual Worlds graduation, Class of 2011.

At 6:00 pm (PDT/SLT), the ceremony begins on UW Avalumni Island (http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/UW%20Avalumni/55/61/27) with

an introduction by Ran Hinrichs, followed by
our distinguished guest speaker Clark Aldrich, and ending [...]

May learning tsunami on Virtual Worlds, E-learning and Social Media

May is going to be a hot month as I will be presenting at #fosscomm11 in Patras on May 9th and at #ellak11 conference in Athens on May 21st.
Moreover, I’ll be blogging and covering via social media the Federal Consortium for Virtual Worlds (FCVW) 2011 (May 11-13th).
The learning tsunami will hit soon here and on twitter, friendfeed [...]

On-demand Virtual Worlds

The Alive Learning blog has been silent for a while due to constant high work load in e-learning, consulting, and professional development.
If you having been following my twitter feed which is transmitted also over facebook, friendfeed and linkedin, then you know that in the last months I’m deeply involved with virtual worlds and games for [...]

E-learning adventure at UOC continues: CDT4

This semester, after the kind proposal of Professor Marcelo Maina, I have the pleasure to expand my cooperation with the Open University of Catalonia (UOC).
Since last week, I am facilitating the online course CDT4: Designing Resources and Activities for E-Learning Purposes. CDT4 is one of the four courses of the world wide available accredited postgraduate [...]