Exploring Meanings of Social Presence in Virtual Learning Environments

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Leah Hardesty, PhD (Second Life avatar killlashandra lavendel)
Exploring Meanings of Social Presence in Virtual Learning Environments
This presentation is designed to provide an overview of the various ways the term “social presence” has been defined in literature and utilized in virtual environments. The phrase social presence has a long history related to physical interpersonal behaviors and has changed to better address virtual behaviors in research. Come learn what social presence means to you and the potential role it plays in virtual world research.
Location: maps.secondlife...
Did you know that you can get free certificates for attending the ZOOM meetings of VWMOOC24 in the month of August with the duration of the meeting.
The 10th annual Second Life MOOC (renamed the Virtual World MOOC in 2018) started in 2014. VWMOOC24 will take place from August 1-31, 2024 on Moodle for Teachers integrating-te.... Free certificates for attending the ZOOM meetings. See the schedule for the ZOOM links docs.google.co...
The theme of the current MOOC is “Connecting in Virtual Worlds. Communities of Practice” There is a plethora of communities in virtual worlds promoting education and learning through connecting online via web technologies such as Second Life. The MOOC will focus on connecting online for collaborative learning and teaching in virtual worlds like Second Life, Digiworldz, Kitely, Minecraft, Artificial Intelligence (AI) Augmented Reality (VR), Virtual Reality (VR), or OpenSim.
The MOOC and the live online classes are organized and coordinated by Dr. Nellie Deutsch, Dr. Doris Molero, Dr. Nancy Zingrone and Dr. Valerie Hill. You may contact the organizers for further information and support.
The presentations will be available in virtual worlds and on ZOOM (click on the following ZOOM link to register once for all the sessions) docs.google.co...
Bios of the presenters are available to download, view, and to print out docs.google.co...
VWMOOC24 is for educators, schools, and public and private businesses that wish to provide training in virtual worlds. Weekly badges and a final certificate of completion will be available for free.
There will be 2 learning platforms: Integrating Technology and VMMOOC Headquarters maps.secondlife...
We also have an exhibition with different presentations where participants will be able to review the slides and get resources from each one of the presenters.
You will get ongoing support from the organizers of the MOOC for each week. Participants will be able to ask questions in advance and throughout the MOOC in Integrating Technology VWMOOC24 MOOC area. The live online classes will be recorded for future reference, so don't worry if you cannot attend or if you'd like to review the content.
The workload for the MOOC includes participating or viewing the recordings of the live session and developing a reflective artifact in the form of a book using Book Creator.
Course Highlights
1. Experience Life in Virtual Worlds
2. Get Acquainted with Learning communities in SL and other virtual worlds.
3. Professional Development in Virtual Worlds
Participants, who reflect on 8 live sessions or the recordings of the sessions (two from each week), will be eligible for a certificate of completion. The due date for the reflections is October 1, 2024.
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