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Barbara Truman Director, Course Development Center for Distributed Learning First Stop: Cyberspace Immersive Learning for Study Abroad Orientation UCF Summer Faculty Development Conference, Education and the 21 st -Century Student: Global, Cultural, and Professional Perspectives, May 3, 2012, International Studies, Concurrent Session
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Invited presentation to UCF's 2012 Summer Faculty Development Conference on the topic of using immersive learning environments to prepare and engage more students into study abroad.
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Barbara TrumanDirector, Course Development
Center for Distributed Learning
First Stop: CyberspaceImmersive Learning for
Study Abroad Orientation
UCF Summer Faculty Development Conference, Education and the 21st-Century Student: Global, Cultural, and Professional Perspectives, May 3, 2012, International Studies, Concurrent Session
My Research Interests
The study of intercultural, appreciative intelligence within collaborative communities
- Game-based learning- Virtual, immersive learning- Metacognition and motivation- Informal learning- Cross-generational learning
New Media Consortium’s Horizon Reports
--- In Search of Alignment ---
Need for Orientation+
• Thoroughly prepare learners to get most out of experience
• Safety precautions
• Awareness to assure positive cultural response
• Full compliance
My Experience
• Frequent interactions with international educators
• Immersive learning environments, social media
• Learning outcomes for course development
• Greater grant development
Question:
When you think of immersive learning environments what
characteristics come to mind?
Dave Elfanbalm aka Botgirl2012 Virtual Worlds Best Practices
In Education (VWBPE) PresentationPlaying with Identity
Immersive Learning Environments• Non-threatening experiential learning• Social experimentation• Venue for practice and rehearsal• Valuable for role play• Play and adjust identity• Reflect upon meaning of “self”• Sensory triggers for memory• Can be global via the Internet• Reasonably affordable• Data from interactions• Requires resiliency and cultural ethnorelativism
Gord Holden, Heritage Christian Online School
British Columbia, Canada, VWBPE 2012
UCF Study Abroad Example:Faculty-Led, Short Term Programs
What is needed that immersive learning can serve?
Advice for deeper orientation:
Need to grasp the culture. What is polite or rude? How do you greet people? Who do you tip? How do you behave in religious places or in museums? How to get around on your own? How to be safe?How to avoid breaking the law?
Gartner Hype Cycle
http://www.gartner.com/technology/research/hype-cycles/
Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL)
http://adlnet.org
Local resource:• United States DoD
Joint ADL Co-Lab • UCF Research Park• Focus on Next
Generation Learner
http://research.adlnet.gov/newsletter/academic/201103.htm
Dr. Elaine RaybournUniversity of New Mexico,
Communications DepartmentSandia National LaboratoriesAdaptive Thinking Research
International Participation
http://www.vwbpe.orghttp://vwmooc.wordpress.com
March 15-17, 2012
International Professional Development (free)
(Right) A.J. Brooks, Monclair State, hosts organizers of the Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education Conference during a weekly Virtual Worlds Education Roundtable (VWER) meeting hosted by Bowling Green State University
(Left) VWBPE Session: Sabine Emad, Professor of Marketing, Geneva Business School (HEG) and Wade Halvorson, Assistant Professor, University of Western Australia, author of Virtual Worlds: Marketing Implications and Applications (2010) present in the amphitheatre below.
Project: 50 university students from Switzerland and Australia were brought together virtually in groups of four to analyze a marketing case study.
Future Institutional Collaborations?
The leading global network of research
universities for the 21st centuryhttp://www.universitas21.com
Global emphasis on curriculum and collaboration. Key goal? Praxis
UCF Invited Presentation November 2011, Vancouver, Canada
Example Short Term Study Abroad Trip: NicaraguaAction research-service request
◦ Colorado Technical University◦ InnerCHANGE WORKS (NGO) ◦ Universidad Americana Managua
320 donated iMac G3s Schools Involved
◦ Public Defender Office
Provide training for in-country technicianTeacher trainingNetwork and database assistanceProposed solution establishing sustainable internet cafe
Content courtesy of Dr. Anne Marie Armstrong
Spring 2012
Extreme service requiredApplied researchApplied experience valued from nontraditional studentsOngoing relationship soughtAvoidance of government involvement
Content courtesy of Dr. Anne Marie ArmstrongCommunity requests for Internet Cafe
Example Short Term Study Abroad Trip: Nicaragua
Recent News: Avatars for Peace and Health
Photo courtesy of Liz Dorland aka Chimera Cosmos, Washington University in St. Louis
April 24, 2012
Digital memory and preservationMeaning of embodied presence?
http://www.betterverse.org/2012/04/address-by-the-dalai-lama-streamed-at-mayo-clinic-in-second-life-april-24.html
DEMONSTRATION
Question:
How best could we employ the affordances of
immersive learning to enrich your study abroad
experiences?
More Free Immersive Learning Professional Development Events
October TimeframeInternational SLanguages Event
http://www.slanguages.net
New Media Faculty Seminar – Fall 2012Gardner Campbell, Virginia Tech
http://www.netvibes.com/vw-nmfs-f11#NMFS_Home
Federal Consortium of Virtual WorldsMay 16-18, 2012 http://www.ndu.edu/icollege/fcvw/index.htm
Howard Gardner, Stanford University, guest presenter
ReferencesBriers, G. E., Shinn, G. C., & Nguyen, A. N. (2010). Through Students’ Eyes: Perceptions and Aspirations of College of Agriculture and Life Science Students Regarding International Educational Experiences. Journal of International Agricultural and Extension Education, 17(2), 5-20.
Diehl, W. C., & Prins, E. (2008). Unintended outcomes in Second Life: Intercultural literacy and cultural identity in a virtual world. Language. Intercultural Communication Language and Intercultural Communication, 8(2), 101-118.
Fouts, J. S. (2011). Technology and Innovation Report Using Virtual World Journalism for Health Education. Journal of Healthcare, Science and the Humanities, 1(2), 127-139. Fowler, S. M., & Pusch, M. D. (2010). Intercultural simulation games: a review (of the United States and beyond. Simulation & Gaming, 41(1), 94-115.
Halfin, J. (2011). How Online Tools Can Be Used to Enrich Study Abroad. University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Retrieved from http://www.internationalyeti.com/documents/Halfen%20-%20Online%20Tools%20to%20Enrich%20Study%20Abroad.pdf Himelfarb, S., & Idriss, S. (2011). Exchange 2.0. Washington, DC: U.S. Institute of Peace.
Lane, H. C. (2007). Metacognition and the Development of Intercultural Competence, Retrieved from http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA470403 Mason, H., & Moutahir, M. (August 18-20, 2006). Multidisciplinary Experiential Education in Second Life: A Global Approach. Paper presented at the Second Life Community Convention, San Francisco. Moira, B., Cameron, M., & Thomas, L. (2010). Social network activity and social well-being. Paper presented at the Proceedings of the 28th international conference on Human factors in computing systems, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
Murray, K., & Waller, R. (2007). Social networking goes abroad. International Educator, 16(3), 56-59. Sachau, D., Brasher, N., & Fee, S. (2010). Three Models for Short-Term Study Abroad. Journal of Management Education, 34(5), 645-670. doi: 10.1177/1052562909340880 Seigel, S. E. (2010). Gaining Cultural Intelligence through Second Life Learning Interventions. International Journal of Advanced Corporate Learning, 3(3), 45-50. Shively, R. L. (2010). From the Virtual World to the Real World: A Model of Pragmatics Instruction for Study Abroad. Foreign Language Annals, 43(1), 105-137. doi: 10.1111/j.1944-9720.2010.01063.x Sykes, J. M., Oskoz, A., & Thorne, S. L. (2008). Web 2.0, Synthetic Immersive Environments, and Mobile Resources for Language Education. Calico Journal, Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium, 25(3), 528-546. Yee, N., Bailenson, J. N., Urbanek, M., Chang, F., & Merget, D. (2007). The unbearable likeness of being digital: The persistence of nonverbal social norms in online virtual environments. CyberPsychology & Behavior, 10.(1), 115-121. doi:10.1089/cpb.2006.9984 Yeung, C.-m. A., Liccardi, I., Lu, K., Seneviratne, O., & Berners-lee, T. (2009). Decentralization: The future of online social networking. Paper presented at the W3C Workshop on the Future of Social Networking, Barcelona, Spain.
Thank you
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