EDUCAUSE | Podcasts and Virtual Community

ELI Podcast: Virtual Worlds as Web 2.0 Learning Spaces

gbayne — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 17:07:41 -0600

On this podcast we feature a plenary session from the ELI 2008 Annual Meeting. The presenter is Sarah Smith Robbins, PhD Candidate, Ball State University, with a topic entitled, "Virtual Worlds as Web 2.0 Learning Spaces".

Virtual worlds such as Second Life offer powerful teaching and learning opportunities by integrating participatory, social, and immersive media for student-centered learning. Learn about Second Life, its use as a learning space, and its predictive role in the future of learning.

CNI Podcast: An Interview with Julian Lombardi, Executive Director of the Open Croquet Consortium

gbayne — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 18:36:51 -0600

In this 15 minute podcast, we feature an interview with Julian Lombardi, Assistant Vice President at Duke University and Executive Director of the Open Croquet Consortium. Croquet is a powerful new open source software development environment and software infrastructure for creating and deploying deeply collaborative multi-user online applications and metaverses on and across multiple operating systems and devices.

Dr. Julian Lombardi is the Assistant Vice President of Academic Services and Technology Support with Duke University’s Office of Information Technology, Senior Research Scholar with Duke University's program in Information Science + Information Studies (ISIS), and an adjunct professor with Duke University's Department of Computer Science. He is also one of the six principle architects of the Croquet Project, executive director of the Open Croquet Consortium, and a co-chair of MacLearningEnvironments.org. A former biology professor, Lombardi combined his interests in information technology, complex systems, and the phenomenon of emergence in biological systems and began designing and developing computer-supported collaboration systems involving self-optimizing massively multiuser online 3D environments in the mid-1990s. He eventually founded VIOS, Inc. in 1999 where he acted as the venture capital-backed company's first CEO and then Chief Creative Officer/Software architect. From 2002-2005, he managed a learning technology research and development group in University of Wisconsin-Madison's Division of Information Technology.

This interview is provided courtesy of CNI and was recorded at their 2007 Fall Task Force Meeting. The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) is an organization dedicated to supporting the transformative promise of networked information technology for the advancement of scholarly communication and the enrichment of intellectual productivity. You can learn more about CNI at their web site, http://www.cni.org

Constance Steinkuehler Presentation on Virtual Worlds

gbayne — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 10:39:44 -0500

In this podcast of the presentation " Cognition, Learning, and Literacy in Virtual Worlds," Constance Steinkuehler, assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, discusses the intellectual practices that constitute gameplay in virtual worlds (for example, collaborative problem solving, informal scientific reasoning, computational literacy, and digital media literacy) and the way these coalesce into a form of cosmopolitanism found in the least likely of places, in context of pop culture.

This was presented as a general session at Immersive Learning Environments: New Paths to Interaction and Engagement, the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative's Spring 2007 Focus Session, held at the Friday Institute for Educational Innovation in Raleigh, North Carolina, March 27–28, 2007. Additional resources from the event, including session recordings and audio interviews, video, presentation materials, and photos, also are available online.

Phillip D. Long on Virtual Learning Environments

gbayne — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 12:06:45 -0500

In this podcast of the presentation “ Virtual Learning Environments in 3D,” Phillip D. Long, associate director of MIT’s Office of Educational Innovation and Technology, looks at the evolution of online interaction from text-based collaboration such as wikis to 3D virtual worlds (VWs) such as Second Life. He discusses the potential of these immersive 3D VWs to serve as learning spaces and to become persistent new home campuses.

E2005 Podcast: The iPod: A Pocket Full of Learning in an iCommunity

podcaster — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 18:47:25 -0600

This 46 minute recording provides coverage of the 2005 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference Session entitled The iPod: A Pocket Full of Learning in an iCommunity.

E2005 Podcast: Building an Online Learning Community for "Blended" Librarians

podcaster — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 17:38:32 -0600

This 51 minute recording provides coverage of the 2005 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference Session entitled Building an Online Learning Community for "Blended" Librarians.

E2005 Podcast: Building the LAMS Community Web Site

podcaster — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 16:33:32 -0600

This 42 minute recording provides coverage of the 2005 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference Session entitled Sharing Learning Designs: Building the LAMS Community Web Site.

E2005 Podcast: Creating Connectivity with a Portal

podcaster — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 17:11:15 -0600

This 51 minute recording provides coverage of the 2005 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference Session entitled Creating Connectivity with a Portal.