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Online Educa Berlin - 1 December 2011Cristina Stefanelli, FOR.COM, Italy
ADDED VALUE OF TEACHINGIN VIRTUAL WORLDS:
LESSON LEARNT FROM THE AVATAR PROJECT
Cristina StefanelliProject Manager
Online Educa BerlinBerlin, 1 December 2011
Cristina Stefanelli, FOR.COM, Italy
OVERVIEW
AVATAR project
Partners and cross-cooperation
Project phases
What works? What is less efficent?
What next?
Agenda
Online Educa BerlinBerlin, 1 December 2011
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The AVATAR project
PROJECT AVATAR - Added Value of teAching in a virTuAl woRld
PROGRAMME Lifelong Learning ProgrammeSubprogramme Comenius
DURATION 24 months (Dec 2009 – Nov 2011)
AIM Teach secondary school teachers to use virtual worlds in education through an on-line pilot course and virtual laboratories.
Online Educa BerlinBerlin, 1 December 2011
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For.Com. Formazione per la Comunicazione Italy - www.forcom.it
Information Design FH JOANNEUMUniversity of Applied SciencesAustria - www.fh-joanneum.at
Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia
Spain - www.uned.es
University of Southern DenmarkDenmark- www.sdu.dk
Burgas Free UniversityBulgaria - www.bfu.bg
University of HertfordshireUK - www.herts.ac.uk
SOPH.ia In Action Consulting Italy - www.sophiaconsulting.eu
Partners
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AVALON - Access to Virtual and Action
Learning live Online LLP KA3
NIFLAR - Networked Interaction in
Foreign Language Acquisition and
ResearchLLP
MUVENATIONLLP Comenius
AVC@SL - the Anti-Violence-Campus at Second
LifeLLP Grundtvig
ReDNetEU Health Programme
NEXT-TELLFP7 for R&D ICT
ITEMSLLP LdV
Virtual LifeFP7 ICT-2007.1.5
Cross-CooperationCross-Cooperation
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• Students can achieve extra competencies (problem solving, communication skills, team working, creativity, leadership) (Campbell, 2009)
• Six “learning frameworks” (Lim, 2009)– Learning by exploring– Learning by collaborating– Learning by being– Learning by building– Learning by championing– Learning by expressing
VIRTUAL LEARNINGWhy virtual worlds?
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RESEARCH DESIGNAND PRODUCTION
EXPERIMENTATION EVALUATION
We are here!
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24
AVATAR Project phases
Research & comparative analysis on existing VWs
Research: Educational perspectives and Didactic Methods to Teach using V-platforms
From Jan to May 11c.a. 100 hrs
120 secondary school teachers + 3 observers
c.a. 290 pupils involved in the project works
Project Phases
Online Educa BerlinBerlin, 1 December 2011
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Experimentation phase• 123 teachers enrolled
• 55 dropped out
• 3 acted as observers
• 65 teachers completed the training
• 26 experimented a project work
• approx 290 students involved
Total
32%
21%
45%
2%
ATTENDANCE COMPLETION drop-out Observers
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What works?
• Peer to peer learning
• Informal mentoring
• Learning by observing
• Practical exercises and experiments
• Support and guidance inside the virtual world
Online Educa BerlinBerlin, 1 December 2011
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What is less efficent?
• The theoretical angle: articles etc.
• Asynchronous reflection exercises/e-platform
• More face-2-face time requested
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“There are many useful resources to use in-world and to create you learning scenarios”
Evidencies
Online Educa BerlinBerlin, 1 December 2011
Cristina Stefanelli, FOR.COM, Italy
“Students can learn through exploration, building and collaboration. They can travel through time and space”
Evidencies
Online Educa BerlinBerlin, 1 December 2011
Cristina Stefanelli, FOR.COM, Italy
“Virtual worlds add an international dimension to language teaching”
Evidencies
Online Educa BerlinBerlin, 1 December 2011
Cristina Stefanelli, FOR.COM, Italy
WHAT NEXT?
PROJECT EuroversityPROGRAMME LLP, KA3 (ICT) Multilateral networks
DURATION 3 years , 1 Dec 11 – 30 Nov 14
COORDINATOR
PARTNERS
University of Hull, UK
19 partners (from Austria, France, Germany, Sweden, Norway, Cyprus, Portugal, Spain, UK, Netherlands, Italy, Israel)
AIM Facilitate the transfer of core knowledge in teaching and learning in VWs to new contexts.Provide a framework for the creation of a pan-European virtual-world university
Websitewww.euroversity.eu
What Next?
Online Educa BerlinBerlin, 1 December 2011
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More info
Cristina [email protected] Simmering in-world
For more information visit http://www.avatarproject.eu• Analysis report on the most effective virtual world for teachers• Collection of resources, best practices and methods for teaching in virtual
environments• Video interviews with expert• AVATAR Course modules (tasks, lessons, resources)
And the Euroversity Nework: http://www.euroversity.eu
Thank you for listening!