May
22
Combining Real and Virtual Environments
May 22, 2008 |
TNC 2008
Jonathon Taylor –CISCO of excellence of virtual works and education
David Wortley – Serious Games Institute, Coventry University
Mr Cisco gave a recap of web 1.0, 2.0 and 3.0 where web 3.0 represents a totally personalisable environment and the slides for the session can be found here.
The Coventry speaker made the point that what is predictable is that things are not predictable in terms of how new technology is used . This does lead to difficulties in getting audience attention; a member of generation Y or a digital native views education in a totally different way to previously - converging technologies are changing the learning process and the learners themselves
We are moving from a knowledge transfer model in education towards peer to peer, anytime, anywhere learning
Coventry is trying to combine real and virtual worlds e.g. linking a construction company to virtual environments to explore new approaches – currently generating energy savings for construction projects; as they can use virtual environments to create hybrid events – both real and virtual events
Mobile devices starting to hold multiple amounts of detail about us individually and these will be come increasingly important
Three things that make these ventures succeed according to Coventry:
o Technology to facilitate tracking and mapping
o Overcoming the emotional aspect of dealing with virtual environments
o Issues to do with concerns about privacy
