GUESS education AR?VR learning in the pandemic
GESS Education Keynote: How AR/VR is Transforming Learning During the Pandemic
My ultimate question in the GESS Education keynote: will the global pandemic launch us in the Metaverse?
Posts Tagged ‘immersive teaching’
Virtual Worlds lab for IM 554
categories: announcement
IM 554, Skills for Online Learning and Teaching
Topic for the lab this week: Virtual Worlds (VW): ASVR
Plan:
Prior to class meeting
- Who am I: pls share link https://web.stcloudstate.edu/pmiltenoff/faculty/ prior to class, so they can ask questions, if more info needed
- Ask students to create accounts in ASVR using the 2D option, if they don’t have goggles: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/altspacevr/9nvr7mn2fchq?activetab=pivot:overviewtab
1. Download 2. Create an account 3. Share with instructor (you) their ASVR avatar names 3. Befriend avatar “Plamen” (alternatively avatar “IMS”) - Students with Apple/Mac can follow our ASVR activity though my Oculus goggles, which will stream live my view at my personal FB page: https://www.facebook.com/plamen.miltenoff
During class meeting
- Who are the students: about 5 min to learn who they are
- What are virtual worlds: about 15 min to explain their part in immersive technologies and what immersive technologies are
- What is ASVR and the main competition bout 5 min:
- Troubleshoot issues with download, installation, creation of an account ~ 15 min
- share your avatar names in the Zoom chat session and befriend each other in ASVR
- Meet and organize ourselves in ASVR ~ 5 min. Transition completely from Zoom to ASVR
- How to “read” and find events in ASVR – 5 min
- Explore VR – 15 min
- Ideas to
- lead instructions in VW
https://medium.com/causespacevr/altspacevr-101-full-beginners-guide-4780136a215c - professional development
- organized at the institution
- seeking out and joying communities
- Educators in VR
- Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education Conference * Reconnaissance * March 18-20, 2021
- MinnState XR COP
- MinnState workshop “Teaching with VR” (free)
https://sites.google.com/d/1Hylw2DiTCaVFA7-kQBVKJM2wLZyjWlWV/p/1NV7ba35EaVztB5Micngd-xGxj9c65yha/edit
- lead instructions in VW
- Discuss students’ ideas about opportunities with ASVR and virtual worlds – remaining time
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more on IM 554 in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=554
practise medicine in VR
Virtual reality has found a new role: Teaching doctors to deal with patients
Medical students and junior doctors are increasingly learning to practise medicine in VR
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2021/03/10/journal-of-applied-instructional-design-jaid/
While COVID is driving clinical learning to VR, the teaching of human anatomy — which typically takes place in the early years of a medical degree — has already shifted to virtual reality in some universities. Case Western Reserve University’s medical school, for example, had been teaching anatomy on campus through content on Microsoft Hololens, rather than by dissecting cadavers as many universities do. Now, with students unable to come onto campus, the university has shipped headsets to students at home so they can continue learning at home.
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more on immersive in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=immersive
AR shopping at Lowes
categories: announcement
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more on AR in this iMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=Augmented+reality
Spatial
You Can Now Attend VR Meetings—No Headset Required
Virtual-reality workspace startup Spatial is offering a free version for users. All you need is a web browser.
JULIAN CHOKKATTU
https://www.wired.com/story/spatial-vr-ar-collaborative-spaces/
Spatial is a startup that enables people to meet through augmented or virtual reality. It’s a little similar to the now defunct Facebook Spaces, except it has much broader support. You can use VR or mixed-reality headsets from a myriad of brands—from Microsoft’s HoloLens and Nreal’s Light to the Oculus Quest—as vehicles to meet in virtual spaces.
Spatial is announcing that it’s launching support for web browsers on desktops, Android, and iOS. Oh, and the platform is now completely free and open to everyone.
The free version temporarily gives you unlimited access to all the enterprise features. Agarawala says a free version will always exist, but limitations will be added back in (like 40-minute sessions and up to three saved project rooms) once social-distancing orders wind down.
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more on immersive reality platforms in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=virbela
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=engagevr
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=asvr
iLRN 2020
YouTube Live stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSXLJGhI2D8&feature=youtu.be
and the Discord directions: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GgI4dfq-iD85yJiyoyPApB33tIkRJRns1cJ8OpHAYno/edit
Modest3D Guided Virtual Adventure – iLRN Conference 2020 – Session 1: currently, live session: https://youtu.be/GjxTPOFSGEM
https://mediaspace.minnstate.edu/media/Modest+3D/1_28ejh60g
CALL FOR PROPOSALS: GUIDED VIRTUAL ADVENTURE TOURS
at iLRN 2020: 6th International Conference of the Immersive Learning Research Network
Organized in conjunction with Educators in VR
Technically co-sponsored by the IEEE Education Society
June 21-25, 2020, Online
Conference theme: “Vision 20/20: Hindsight, Insight, and Foresight in XR and Immersive Learning”
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At our physical iLRN conferences, the first day of the conference (Sunday) is typically devoted to one or more guided social tours of local attractions in which attendees have the opportunity to socialize and get to know one another while immersing themselves in the sights and sounds of the host city and/or region. As this year’s conference will take place entirely online, we are instead offering the opportunity for attendees to sign up for small-group “Guided Virtual Adventure” tours of 50 minutes in duration to various social and collaborative XR/immersive environments and platforms.
Proposals are being sought for prospective Guided Virtual Adventure tour offerings on Sunday, June 21, 2020. Tour destinations may be:
– a third-party XR/immersive platform with which you are familiar (e.g., Altspace, Mozilla Hubs, Minecraft, World of Warcraft, Somnium Space, OrbusVR, Second Life);
– a specific virtual environment that you, your institution/organization, or someone else has developed within a third-party platform;
– a platform that you or your institution/organization has developed and/or specific environments within that platform.
There are no fees involved in offering a Guided Virtual Adventure tour; however, preference will be given to proposals that involve environments/platforms that are freely and openly accessible, and that are associated with nonprofit organizations and educational institutions. Where possible, it is strongly recommended that multiple offerings of the tour are made available throughout the day so as to cater for different time zones in which the 8,000+ iLRN 2020 event attendees will be based.
Companies wishing to offer Guided Virtual Adventure tours involving their commercial products and services may submit proposals for consideration, but the iLRN 2020 Organizing Committee reserves the right to, at its discretion, place limits on the number of tours of platforms/environments of a certain type or that address a particular target audience/application vertical. In doing so, they will prioritize companies that have purchased a sponsorship or exhibition package.
*** IMPORTANT: The Guided Virtual Adventures are intended to be a social activity, and as such, platforms and environments to be toured must support interaction among multiple users. For other types of platform or environment, please consider offering a Workshop (https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimmersivelrn.org%2Filrn2020%2Fworkshops%2F&data=02%7C01%7Cpmiltenoff%40STCLOUDSTATE.EDU%7C7a9997a1d6724744f7d708d7f52d9387%7C5011c7c60ab446ab9ef4fae74a921a7f%7C0%7C0%7C637247448406614239&sdata=2rSCHtYBw3116hRmXFowDz8vEJ%2FPE8MjBjPjhuoU%2FKM%3D&reserved=0) instead, and/or participating in the Immersive Learning Project Showcase & Competition (https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimmersivelrn.org%2Filrn2020%2Fimmersive-learning-project-showcase%2F&data=02%7C01%7Cpmiltenoff%40STCLOUDSTATE.EDU%7C7a9997a1d6724744f7d708d7f52d9387%7C5011c7c60ab446ab9ef4fae74a921a7f%7C0%7C0%7C637247448406614239&sdata=vldC9NaYxK6cYof9QoBxq9dTjO1Zv%2F9OIcUAdqdT0rs%3D&reserved=0). ***
### Submitting a Proposal ###
Please use this form to propose a Guided Virtual Adventure: https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fforms.gle%2FP4JTAkb29Lb9L18JA&data=02%7C01%7Cpmiltenoff%40STCLOUDSTATE.EDU%7C7a9997a1d6724744f7d708d7f52d9387%7C5011c7c60ab446ab9ef4fae74a921a7f%7C0%7C0%7C637247448406614239&sdata=P7uRpwfXWvrQWld%2FQV6JI%2FdnP9lYPxV%2BeRq73xsCozE%3D&reserved=0
### Contact ###
Inquiries regarding the Guided Virtual Adventures may be directed to conference@immersivelrn.org.
### Important Dates ###
– Guided Virtual Adventure proposal submission deadline: May 18, 2020
– Notification of proposal review outcomes: May 21, 2020
– Presenter registration deadline: May 25, 2020
– Deadline for providing final participant instructions: June 1, 2020
– Guided Virtual Adventure Day: June 21, 2020
Other upcoming iLRN 2020 deadlines (see conference website for details):
– Immersive Learning Project Showcase & Competition – expressions of interest to participate due May 14, 2020 (deadline extended, no further extensions will be announced)
– Practitioner Stream oral and poster presentations – 1-2 page proposals, not for publication in proceedings, due May 18, 2020 (will not be extended)
– Workshops, Panel Sessions, and Special Sessions – 2-3 page proposals for publication in proceedings as extended-abstract descriptions of the sessions, due May 18, 2020 (will not be extended)
– Free registration deadline for non-presenter educators and students – May 23, 2020
(Sent to blend-online@listserv.educause.edu)
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more on virtual tours in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=virtual+tour
students in VR
https://internal.altvr.com/events/1460721187360342083Excited to present at 12:30 pm ET today with one of my @ridge_high game design students about using #Minecraft as a content creation tool. Join us! @PlayCraftLearn @PlayCraftLearn @BernardsTwpBOE @BTEAOnline @WAMSBTSD @wamsfoodslady @EarthSwanny @melaniedupuis84 @HelenAngel https://t.co/gDTYZ9kXQG
— Steve Isaacs (@mr_isaacs) May 7, 2020
XR Storytellers: Learners Making Immersive Stories
LIVE NOW
Thursday, May 7, 2020 from 1:30 PM to 2:30 PM (CDT)
PRESENTATION
Our team will share lessons learned in collaborating to create immersive experiences that accelerate STEM education. Find out how students achieve classroom learning objectives by designing AR experiences. Watch a demonstration of how an immersive scientific story is co-created by students and teachers in a virtual learning environment. Explore novel techniques for supporting learners to demonstrate understanding and share knowledge using spatial technologies and storytelling principles. We invite guests to share their questions and perspectives on the possibilities and limitations of XR storytelling to facilitate relational connections to curriculum and instruction.
PRESENTERS:
Sarah Cassidy | Janelle LaVoie | Quincy Wang | Poh Tan
We are a team of VR learners from the University of Saskatchewan and Simon Fraser University in Canada. Our research explores innovative uses of immersive technology for STEM education and pro-social change.
MENTOR: Paula MacDowell
University of Saskatchewan, Assistant Professor
Website
LinkedIN
Twitter: paulamacdowell
Facebook Discord: Paulie#8830
https://internal.altvr.com/events/1460721187360342083
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https://www.everestvirtualreality.com/
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more on students in VR in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=students+in+vr
art and immersive teaching
Looking for resources for learning about #art online now or any of the arts during #remotelearning #remoteteaching #education Any websites, courses, livestreams, any ideas? @Artguy76 @GrundlerArt #k12artchat #creativittdept #iste #onlinelearning #ArtsEd
— Rachelle Dene Poth #ThriveinEDU #AI #ARVR (@Rdene915) May 5, 2020
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more on art and immersive teaching in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=art+immersive
Mozilla Hubs VR
ARVRinEDU
https://www.arvrinedu.com/post/day-8-mozilla-hub
Live Zoom orientation tour with Jaime Donally (ISTE presenter). https://www.arvrinedu.com/
“ultimatelly, it is a meeting space for the students to connect among each other and connect with us”
mostly K12 questions
it is free, but the HubsCloud (enterprise option). Regular Hub is up to 25 people.
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more on Virbela in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=virbela
more on virtual worlds in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=virtual+worlds
Magic Leap 2 new strategy
Physical screens must go. Their days are numbered.”
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more on Magic Leap in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=magic+leap