Atelier-D

First studio based course delivered online

This is a university that delivers an online studio based design course using SL, Ning and Elluminate. Are they the only ones?

 

https://deltawire.delta.ncsu.edu/faculty-spotlight/511/

 

 

Course Delivery Innovations (CDI) 4 ~ Year One

CDI 4 ~ Collaborative design in Second Life
Led by Steve Garner with support from Theo Zamenopoulos

Second Life was used to see if it can assist students to share and collaborate design ideas.  Time is needed to learn the tool and collaboration needs encouraging.   For a more detailed summary of this CDI please see the Atelier-D Website CDI 4.  

Design for Learning Spaces in 3D Environments

On the 20^th of April, Steve and Theo had a very interesting meeting with Shailey Minocha and Ahmad Reeves in order to discuss their research on a JISC funded project entitled "Design for Learning Spaces in 3D Environments" 

(http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/elearningltig/delve.aspx)

Shailey suggested the following links:

https://lists.secondlife.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/educators 

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/documents/seriousvirtualworldsreport.aspx

 

Building the highest tower in Second Live and more...

I got to know a researcher from the Kings College in London. He was running a study in Second Life. It was a collaborative design project. Goal was building the highest tower that can stand unsupported even if 'gravity is switched on'.
I looked up his work for Steve's CDI, but I saw that he did lots of interesting stuff on e-learning. The link to this particular experiment is: http://warburton.typepad.com/liquidlearning/2008/06/how-tall-is-tal.html, but I encourage you to go through other posts in his blog, too. Its a great resource on other Social Networking and Identity aspects!

CDI 3: Collaborative design in Second Life

CDI 3: coordinated by Steve Garner
Second Life presents a huge culture shift for teachers and students of design. Not only does it offer new ways of collaborating in a virtual environment, it offers new ways to create various forms of design representation from concept sketches to testable prototypes (e.g. in architecture). It also offers students new opportunities to test market their ideas in non design communities. This CDI will construct and run a product design project with selected Level 2 students entirely within the OU’s established island in Second Life. It will tap into expertise available in the OU community (e.g. Anna Peachey and her work for ‘OpenLife’).