Social Virtual Reality: Open Education’s Secret Sauce

Social Virtual Reality: Open Education’s Secret Sauce

Stylianos Mystakidis, Open Education Europa

Warning: This presentation is full of #got spoilers!

Open!

Keynote’s Outline

a) Game! ‘Open Education Challenge’

b) Why does Open Education matter?

c) Language Learning & Open Education

d) Open Education’s Secret Sauce

e) Calls to Action (for Ambitious Educators!)

Open Education Challenge

kahoot.it Feel free to play it yourself!

https://play.kahoot.it/#/k/c1cc6268-372d-4bde-

9497-9d32b594d70d

Why does Open Education matter?

Winter is coming

#got

MOOCs are

coming

In Education…

http://openeducationeuropa.eu/en/open_education_scoreboard

We are all white walkers

Open Education & Language Learning

Where can you find (open & free) • Projects

• Events

• MOOCs

• Resources

• (useful) scientific publications

…on Language Learning?

Welcome to

openeducationeuropa.eu

• Part of the Opening Up Education initiative

• A Collaborative Network of OE institutions

• A Community of Practitioners working together

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• 44.279 members (Educators, Researchers, Managers, Policy Makers)

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4. Community of Education Pioneers

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6. Share & discover how innovators enhance learning

DISCUSS FIND IN-DEPTH SHARE

openeducationeuropa.eu three main pillars

eLearning papers

Teacher-led Innovation

eLearningpapers journal

eLearning papers 2015 topics:

• Nº 42: Design Patterns for Open Online Teaching and Learning

• Nº 43: Applied Games and Gamification – Drivers for Change

• Nº 44: Teacher-led Innovation and the teachers' role in the

digital era

• Nº 45: Language Learning and Technology

Top Trends in Language Learning

1. Mobile Learning

2. Personalized & Adaptive Learning

3. Constant Feedback

4. Live & On Demand Tutoring

5. Faster & Better Results

Open Education’s Secret Sauce

Quiz #1: 2015 NASA Tech for Mars Astronauts?

1. Military Interstellar HMD

2. Oculus Rift

3. Opensim

VR enters school classrooms

http://openeducationeuropa.eu/en/news/google-expedition-takes-virtual-reality-classrooms-around-globe-diy-pair-glasses

Three Challenges for Mass Open Education for Employment

1. Design and offer more MOOCs in more EU countries

2. Create new models to accelerate MOOC production to address e-skills needs, and finally

3. Facilitate the design of different and/or better MOOCs especially focused for webskills

Deep Learning

• Development of conditionalized knowledge and metacognition through Communities of Practice

• Manifold Thinking Skills (creative, critical, caring and reflective)

Social Virtual Reality

Synonyms/Predecessors: 3d Virtual Immersive Environments, 3d Virtual Worlds

• Avatar embodiment

• Social Immersion

• Social Interactions

• Co-Presence

• Co-Creation (User-Generated Content)

Social VR & MOOCs

• Formal and informal learning experiences

• Identity and avatar psychology

• Enhanced, immediate synchronous e-learning interactions

• Experiential and social learning

• Virtual teamwork

• Formation of virtual learning communities

• Effective behavior-changing learning experiences

Top Trends in Language Learning

1. Mobile Learning

2. Personalized & Adaptive Learning

3. Constant Feedback

4. Live & On Demand Tutoring

5. Faster & Better Results

Social Virtual Reality: Open Education’s Secret Sauce

Social Virtual Reality: Open Education’s Secret Sauce

Call to Action!

• Do you use VWs in your teaching?

• Do you produce educational resources (e.g. machinima)?

Call to Action!

• Do you use VWs in your teaching?

• Do you produce educational resources (e.g. machinima)?

Let the world discover your awesomeness!

Inspire and help other educators to learn from you and re-invent their teaching!

Open Education Europa Teachers Contest

Boosting innovative teaching Sharing openly Good Teaching Practices

Open Education Europa Teachers Contest

Open for all Educators in Europe All levels of formal Education (primary, secondary,

higher), Vocational Training, Adult Education All disciplines/subjects Prize: Visit to an Innovative European School Open Education Europa (OEE) Pioneer Badge for all

participants

How can you participate?

You may submit in any European language

Contest deadline: November 25th , 2015

Share your good practice

in the OEE portal ANYTIME!

http://openeducationeuropa.eu/en/share-your-good-teaching-or-learning-practice

http://openeducationeuropa.eu/en/teacher-contest

What is a Good Practice in OEE?

Action, initiative or experience that enhances learning and is characterized by:

• Innovation or

• Openness or

• Inclusion

OEE Good Practices Criteria

• Innovation: application of a novel approach, method, medium or resource to improve teaching or learning (not necessarily tech-related)

• Openness: use or production of resources that are shared freely; the opening up of the classroom with open educational practices

• Inclusion: providing access to education or training to a previously excluded group or audience

Open Education Europa Good Practices Section

Sharing of Good Practices remains open &

active after the Teachers Contest!

Good Practices Section (soon)

http://openeducationeuropa.eu/share/good-practices

Shared Good Practices Analysis

180+ Good Practices from 27 countries

Submission in 8 different languages

Top-5 countries: Greece, Romania, Spain, Lithuania, Italy

50+ are on Language Learning

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Call to Action!

Join the Education Pioneers Community!

Blog about your awesome activities & events

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Call to Action!

Enhance your professional skills by participating in our friendly, free, open, online activities & events about

Teaching Innovation &

Education in the Digital Era

Education in the Digital Era Activities

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