2nd European Immersive Education Summit
26th and 27th November 2012
École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs (Paris, France)
The École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs (ENSAD) in Paris has the mission to provide artistic, scientific and technical training for creative designers engaged in design and research in all aspects of the decorative arts. ENSAD is involved in research on the creation of artistic and shared online spaces, exploring the aesthetic and sociological implications of immersive 3D environments.
The summit will build on this theme, exploring how virtual spaces can be used for innovative forms of teaching and learning, fostering creativity and artistic expression. This will be rooted in new technological developments in the fields of virtual, augmented and mixed reality. There will also be a strong emphasis on pedagogy and effective design and evaluation of solutions, with case studies from active practitioners in this emerging cross-disciplinary domain.
This is the second summit organised by the newly formed European Chapter of the Immersive Education Initiative (http://europe.immersiveeducation.org), and builds on the success of the previous iED Europe summit held in Madrid in November 2011. See http://europe.immersiveeducation.org/events/ied-europe-summit for an overview of the previous summit and the online proceedings. The European summit complements the international summits that are held in Boston and organised by the Immersive Education Initiative in the USA. (see http://mediagrid.org/summit/).
Details, deadlines and submission instructions are available here.
1st European Immersive Education Summit
28th and 29th November 2011
Leganes (Madrid, Spain)
This is the first summit organised by the newly formed European Chapter of the Immersive Education Initiative (http://europe.immersiveeducation.org), and builds on the success of previous iED summits held in Boston and London (http://mediagrid.org/summit/). Universidad Carlos III de Madrid will host the two-day iED Summit from 28th to 29th November 2011.
This summit will address core topics on the use of virtual and mixed-reality environments for online education and training applications. The scope will be fairly broad and will look at a range of innovative uses of virtual reality immersive environments. This could range from using and developing virtual environments through to practitioners with experience of teaching online and developing new approaches and pedagogies, including underpinning theories, human factors, pedagogy and design/evaluation strategies, case studies and more technical/scientific research topics. Submissions that have empirical results derived from virtual or mixed-reality immersive education test-beds are also encouraged.
Details, deadlines and submission instructions are available here.
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EC-TEL 2011 Workshop: Learning Activities Across Physical and Virtual Spaces (AcrossSpaces), Palermo, Italy, 20 September 2011
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This workshop seeks to foster discussions regarding new educational scenarios and technological solutions that exploit an integrated transfer from physical spaces, such as the classroom or the playground, to virtual spaces, such as virtual learning environments or 3D worlds. This workshop aims at bringing together both educational researchers, technologists and open public working and interested in this topic in order to identify the possibilities and challenges involved in the design and implementation of learning activities across physical and virtual spaces. It is expected that the discussions and relevant knowledge gained in the workshop will be the seed for the generation of a paper to be submitted to a special issue on the topic of the workshop. Those accepted position statements and abstracts will be given the option to be extended into full papers to be also submitted to this special issue.
Visit the workshop website here
K-12 Technology Working Group (K12.TWG) WEEKLY VIRTUAL MEETINGS
Date : Every Thursday
Time : 06:00 PM USA Eastern Time
VIRTUAL EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT: .:: read now ::.
DISCUSSION FORUM: K-12 Community Group (K12.CG) [Login required]
AGENDA AND LOCATION:
For an overview of the K-12 group please read this official announcement (note that the real-world launch was in February; the virtual launch event is in March). The agenda and information on how to attend this VIRTUAL event will be posted into the K-12 Community Group discussion forum (see above) before this event begins. Membership is free and open to the global academic community. For details see "How can I participate?" on the right-hand side of this page, or "Join" at the top of this page.
K-12 Technology Working Group (K12.TWG) launch event
Date : Thursday February 24, 2011
Time : 08:00:00 (08:00 AM) USA Mountain Standard Time (MST)
OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: http://mediagrid.org/news/2011-02_K12.html
DISCUSSION FORUM: K-12 Community Group (K12.CG) [Login required]
AGENDA AND LOCATION:
Please read this official announcement. Additional agenda and information on how to attend this event in Colorado will be posted into the K-12 Community Group discussion forum (see above) before this event begins. Membership is free and open to the global academic community. For details see "How can I participate?" on the right-hand side of this page, or "Join" at the top of this page.
"iED Kansas" launch event : Kansas Chapter of Immersive Education
Date : Thursday February 24, 2011
Time : 09:00:00 (09:00 AM) USA Central Standard Time (CST)
DISCUSSION FORUM: iED Kansas Community Group (KAN.CG) [Login required]
AGENDA AND LOCATION:
Agenda and information on how to attend this event, and how to view the live stream, will be posted into the iED Kansas Community Group discussion forum (see above) before this event begins. Membership is free and open to the global academic community. For details see "How can I participate?" on the right-hand side of this page, or "Join" at the top of this page.
The world's leading experts in virtual worlds, learning games, educational simulations, and mixed/augmented reality convene May 13-15 in Boston for the iED 2011. Attendance is open to the global education community.
iED 2011 will feature The Education Grid (TEG), Rocket World, Open Wonderland, realXtend, Open Cobalt, Open Simulator, immersive CAVES, mixed/augmented reality, and freely available open source alternatives to Second Life. Members of the Initiative's open file format, library, psychology, mixed reality, and K-12 (kindergarten through high school) groups will give special presentations and workshops at the Summit.
Members of the global academic community are invited to submit abstracts for refereed papers, posters, workshops, panels, general presentations, demos, and outliers (novel late-breaking research and technology).
Details, deadlines and submission instructions are available through the official iED Summit website.
"iED Kansas" virtual meeting : Preparing the Kansas Chapter of Immersive Education DISCUSSION FORUM: iED Kansas Community Group (KAN.CG) [Login required] AGENDA AND LOCATION: K-12 virtual meeting : Preparing to launch the K-12 Technology Working Group (K12.TWG) Date : Thursday December 16, 2010 DISCUSSION FORUM: K-12 Community Group (K12.CG) [Login required] AGENDA AND LOCATION:
Date : Thursday December 16, 2010
Time : 15:00:00 (03:00 PM) USA Eastern Time
UTC : 20:00:00 (08:00 PM) global UTC time
Agenda and information on how to attend this event, and how to view the live stream, will be posted into the iED Kansas Community Group discussion forum (see above) before this event begins. Membership is free and open to the global academic community. For details see "How can I participate?" on the right-hand side of this page, or "Join" at the top of this page.
Time : 16:00:00 (04:00 PM) USA Eastern Time
UTC : 21:00:00 (09:00 PM) global UTC time
Agenda and information on how to attend this event, and how to view the live stream, will be posted into the K-12 Community Group discussion forum (see above) before this event begins. Membership is free and open to the global academic community. For details see "How can I participate?" on the right-hand side of this page, or "Join" at the top of this page.
SPECIAL EVENT: "Video Game Addiction" panel discussion for parents and educators
Date : Sunday December 12, 2010 Time : 17:00:00 (05:00 PM) USA Eastern Time UTC : 22:00:00 (10:00 PM) global UTC time
DISCUSSION FORUM: Learning Games Users Community Group (LGU.CG) [Login required]
RELATED MATERIALS:
1. Video: Mother labels computer games a "dangerous tool" - BBC News [Europe]
2. Video: A self-confessed video gaming "addict" - BBC News [Europe]
3. Video: Was BBC investigation into videogame addiction fair? - CNET UK [Europe]
4. Article: Could Gaming Keep Children Safe Online? - FutureGov [Asia]
5. Article: Video game addiction helped with antidepressant - CNN Health [United States]
6. Article: Can video gaming cross from innocent fun to addiction? - BBC News [Europe]
7. Article: World of Warcraft: My Addiction - Boston College student diary [United States]
8. Article: Is video game addiction really so dangerous? - Telegraph [Europe]
9. Article: South Korea Cracks Down on Gaming Addiction - TIME [international edition]
10. Article: Video gaming: Advice for parents and teachers - BBC News [Europe]
AGENDA AND LOCATION:
Agenda and information on how to attend this special in-world event is circulated directly to all members of the Immersive Education Initiative. Membership is free and open to the global academic community. For details see "How can I participate?" on the right-hand side of this page, or "Join" at the top of this page.
