The virtual future of universities
Lectures and seminars, conversations with the teacher - all this can be transferred to Second Life or another virtual reality. More than 70 universities have already done this and opened campus islands in the Second Life, where teachers meet with students.
To create virtual buildings, universities turn to the help of special companies that specialize in architecture and design in virtual worlds. One of these companies is Moodlerooms , which handles turnkey virtual campuses, along with the installation of a distance learning system and course management. The dean of the faculty gets access to the program for generating avatars of all students, and the next day each of them gets a “second life” and can come to study through the Internet.
Charles Reed (Charles Reed), the rector of the largest university in America, talks about virtual reality technology , which are successfully implemented in the process of teaching students. Charles Reed is responsible for the entire system of California State University, the country's largest university: it has 23 campuses, 46,000 employees, and more than 400,000 students. At the same time, it is planned to expand the university in the near future, so university areas will become a deficit. To solve this problem, students will be relocated to virtual reality.
Sun Microsystems is also working in this direction: as part of the Darkstar project , massive multiplayer game developers get a ready-made platform for launching their virtual worlds. Universities can use this infrastructure too, unlike game developers, for free.
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Gradually, there are other developments that are specifically designed for remote communication of teachers and students. Web 2.0 has already become part of the education system , even in Russia . Now turn on the computer games and virtual reality.
True, during lectures in Second Life, unexpected troubles can arise. For example, recently an unknown avatar broke into a virtual lesson in one of the Canadian schools and began shooting at students. The administrator had to leave the room to find a way to ban the bully.
To create virtual buildings, universities turn to the help of special companies that specialize in architecture and design in virtual worlds. One of these companies is Moodlerooms , which handles turnkey virtual campuses, along with the installation of a distance learning system and course management. The dean of the faculty gets access to the program for generating avatars of all students, and the next day each of them gets a “second life” and can come to study through the Internet.
Charles Reed (Charles Reed), the rector of the largest university in America, talks about virtual reality technology , which are successfully implemented in the process of teaching students. Charles Reed is responsible for the entire system of California State University, the country's largest university: it has 23 campuses, 46,000 employees, and more than 400,000 students. At the same time, it is planned to expand the university in the near future, so university areas will become a deficit. To solve this problem, students will be relocated to virtual reality.
Sun Microsystems is also working in this direction: as part of the Darkstar project , massive multiplayer game developers get a ready-made platform for launching their virtual worlds. Universities can use this infrastructure too, unlike game developers, for free.
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Gradually, there are other developments that are specifically designed for remote communication of teachers and students. Web 2.0 has already become part of the education system , even in Russia . Now turn on the computer games and virtual reality.
True, during lectures in Second Life, unexpected troubles can arise. For example, recently an unknown avatar broke into a virtual lesson in one of the Canadian schools and began shooting at students. The administrator had to leave the room to find a way to ban the bully.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/3115/
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