The seventeenth annual Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education Conference, starting on Thursday, March 14, 2024, will probably be a web-based distributed convention taking place in a number of digital areas. This convention focuses on the usage of immersive digital environments for academic functions together with digital and augmented actuality.
This 12 months we’re returning to our Earth construct. Every area represents a unique terrestrial biome, together with wetlands, desert, badlands, grasslands, and forests. Convention attendees will probably be among the many first to have the ability to discover!
To the very best capability potential, VWBPE gives academic and networking alternatives which are related to academic curriculum improvement using digital environments and “greatest practices.” These embody
- serving to to construct neighborhood by means of extension of studying greatest practices to sensible utility of these concepts and strategies;
- offering networking alternatives for educators and the communities that assist assist schooling; and
- offering entry to present improvements, traits, concepts, case research, and different greatest practices for educators and the communities that assist assist schooling
One of many key challenges confronted by the academic neighborhood is find out how to make the very best use of recent immersive applied sciences in a approach that’s sustainable and accessible primarily based on restricted budgets out there to each instructors and college students. Platforms which are free or open supply, or that may be shared throughout a broad viewers are showcased, together with strategies and analysis round greatest practices of their use and applicability.
Our theme for this 12 months is Mythic Origins.
Mythic tales can present a strategy to interact college students in important pondering and evaluation, in addition to growing their creativity and creativeness. Mythic origins can present college students with a deeper understanding of their very own cultural heritage and the way it has advanced over time. It permits us to discover the origins of our socially constructed myths and legends which have impressed educators and their varied works.
Be part of us as all of us share experiences and successes in how digital applied sciences used within the classroom have helped form schooling for the higher.
This 12 months’s keynote audio system are Wagner James Au and Dr. Nellie Deutsch. Invited audio system embody representatives from Linden Lab, and the 2020 Thinkerer – Renne Emiko Brock.
The VWBPE convention keynote audio system and their respective shows are featured on the conference website, together with a program of thrilling shows, social actions, and networking occasions that may set extraordinary discussions in movement.
The VWBPE Immersive Experiences showcase distinctive and attention-grabbing work being carried out throughout the metaverse. We invite you to hitch us as we discover eleven interactive and fascinating places throughout 5 digital environments. The Immersive Experiences are scheduled from March ninth by means of thirty first (unique of the convention dates). Particulars and entry directions for the experiences are discovered on our program page.
Moreover, this open and free convention wouldn’t be potential with out the beneficiant contributions of our VWBPE sponsors.
The Rockcliffe Registration Portal is open for folks to register new Second Life® avatars and discover out extra in regards to the VWBPE convention in-world. Go to https://www.enroll.onl/
The full conference program is online.
You may also view shows live on YouTube.
All the convention occasions will probably be in Second Life this 12 months, and the places are included within the listings. Whenever you click on on a convention occasion and click on Add to Calendar, you may add the occasion to your personal calendar.
Direct SLURL hyperlinks to VWBPE places:
You may also comply with VWBPE on social media: Second Life group, Facebook, Flickr, LinkedIn, Twitter, and YouTube.
Keynote: “Mythic Origins of Metaverse Myths”
Speaker: Wagner James Au, also called Hamlet, Creator
Time and Location: 4 p.m. SLT on Thursday, March 14 within the VWBPE Auditorium.
Keynote: “The Hero’s Journey of Studying Transformation within the Digital Age”
Speaker: Nellie Deutsch, also called Nellie Homewood, Co-Chair of TESOL CALL-IS and teacher on the Worldwide Hellenic College
Time and Location: 9 a.m. SLT on Friday, March 15 within the VWBPE Auditorium.
The full list of speakers is here.
The main sponsors of this week’s VWBPE occasion are Linden Lab, Rockcliffe University Consortium, Hire A Helper, Porch.com, Knomaze Corporation, Virtual Ability, Agile Dimensions, Journal of Virtual Studies, and Whole Brain Health.
