September 27, 2004
3D Immersive Virtual Spaces: Future Or Hype?
Second Life, is the latest 3D digital world imagined, created and owned by its own inhabitants. In it you can chat, play games, build houses and meet with other people. In second Life you can have your own land on which you can literally "build" any permanent structure like a house, an office building or a public entertainment space. Like in the real world you can rent the land you need and only pay for what you use.
Nonetheless the above, most people will have a hard time understanding or even grasping the potential that these virtual online estates truly represent for our online future abilities to communicate and learn more effectively.
In my view, there are some key unique characteristics of these immersive virtual spaces that make them particularly effective in replacing and extending the abilities of present-day real-time collaboration systems.
Read more about my take on this new wave of 3D immersive collaboration spaces here.
November 25, 2008
The Best Online Collaboration Tools 2008, Collaborative Map is a live editable map of over 150 of the best free and low-cost online collaboration tools available, picked and selected by passionate users like you and me. Click the map to see the full, public, editable version That's ...read more
November 22, 2008
As more and more students begin to attend online courses, is the educational system well aware of the potential of outside-the-classroom approaches in learning? George Siemens - Photo credit: Injenuity The abundance and consequent fragmentation of information gives increasing opportunity to specialized forms of education that more ...read more
November 8, 2008
Pretty soon mobile devices will be used to stream live and on-demand, recorded training courses, engaging learners on the move even in the absence of traditional face-to-face approaches. But, would you attend a course via your mobile phone? Photo credit: lumigopereira Easy of access to high-speed networks ...read more
November 1, 2008
“New technologies offer new opportunities for educators to increase learner engagement and improve the overall value of the learning experience." (Source: George Siemens) George Siemens - Photo credit: Dean Shareski Is your university or college using Facebook, wikis, podcasts, or other social media technologies to communicate, interact and ...read more
October 30, 2008
Every wiki platform has its own advantages and disadvantages. There are tens of different wiki solutions out there, and it can be a daunting task to choose the wiki platform that will best suit your needs. What characteristics are most important when deciding on your wiki ...read more
October 25, 2008
How do you make sense of the huge quantity of the increasing amount of fragmented, separate, granular information you're exposed to when learning? George Siemens - Photo credit: Terri Brown "We make sense personally. No one makes sense for us." If you just rely on educational and academic ...read more
