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: s.macneill@strath.ac.uk