Open Habitat for NGEii
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Overview
A JISC funded project piloting the use of Multi-User Virtual Environments with Art & Design and Philosophy students
A collaboration between:The University of Oxford; Leeds Metropolitan University; King’s College London
Supported by:The JISC Emerge Community of Practice
Core project team:Dave Cormier; Graham Hibbert; Margarita Perez-Garcia; Ian Truelove; Steven Warburton; David White
Technology:Second Life (Linden Labs); OpenSim (Open Source); MPK 20-Darkstar (SUN micro-systems)
User GeneratedContentS ocialPresence
Collaboration
Building Objects
Aesthetic
CreativeTechnical
Persistence
Learning Community
Group Activities
Belonging
Identity
Engagement
Depth of discussion
Social
Academic
Art & Design pilots Philosophy pilots
Themes
Outputs
•Guidelines
•Exemplars
•Recommendation
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•Models
•Platforms
For collaborative building & debate/discussion in Multi-User Virtual
Environments
World of Warcraft
•Popular
•Collaborative
•Discursive
•Sophisticated
This is the current state of the art in collaborative 3D
environments.
http://openhabitat.blip.tv/file/853084/
World of Warcraft
From ‘Alone Together?’ Ducheneaut et al. 2006
•Levels
•Tasks
•Rewards
•Goal
•Narrative (framing)
Comparison
Genre
Structured
Direction
Work? Tasks
Explicit Capital
Given Roles
Determined
Controlled
A World
Topography
Locked Down
Platform
Freeform
Multi-Directional
Play? Social?
Implicit Capital
Social Roles
Open
Free
Islands
Hyperspace
Editable
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Situated?
Informal?
http://tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk/?p=87
First Steps
http://openhabitat.blip.tv/file/852505/http://openhabitat.blip.tv/file/852096/
Scaffolding
http://openhabitat.blip.tv/file/852164/ http://openhabitat.blip.tv/file/852395/
Master - Apprentice
Goal?
Thoughts
• Second Life's weaknesses are educational opportunities
• Second Life relies on the community offering support
• Need a combination of the structured and the free
• Master–Apprentice works for Art & Design but what about Philosophy?
• Orientation needs to be situated
Contact - Information
www.openhabitat.org
.uk
Secondlife://open%20habitat
http://elgg.jiscemerge.org.uk/
Please take a postcard…
