Calltoarms 101117
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This document calls UK educationalists to take control of using virtual worlds for education. It discusses the need for short, medium, and long-term goals in this area. It assumes technology will continue advancing but that building their own is not desirable. Any solution must use open standards and software, allow safe cross-age interaction, and not depend on any single commercial entity. It questions whether a national project or consortium could be formed to pursue common goals and convince funders of virtual worlds' value, given current budget constraints. It proposes regularly meeting virtually and physically in early 2011, and establishes governance and an identity.
Calltoarms 101117
- 1. A Call to Arms Education and Virtual Worlds
- 2. Today's (only) Question Is there an appetite amongst UK (and global) educationalists to take control of their own destiny in the use of virtual worlds?
- 3. Timescales What do we need in the short-term? What do we need in the medium-term? What is our long-term goal?
- 4. Assumptions 1. We don't have the capacity (or desire) to build our own VW technology we want to make use of what is there 2. VW technology will continue to evolve better graphics, more avatars, in-browser operation etc 3. We like the nature of a truly shared space 4. Any solution: MUST use open source standards (c.f. HTML/HTTP) SHOULD use open source software (c.f. Apache vs IIS) MUST allow suitable protection of children, but MUST allow cross-age working if required MUST operate either side of a firewall, i.e. our servers or hosted servers SHOULD/MUST support hyper-griding MUST NOT depend on any (one) commercial company and SHOULD/MUST be distributed
- 5. Funding Assumption: We do not have enough funding to do all this (esp med/long term) organically Question: Do we want to try and create a national project on the lines of the NZ Virtual World Grid? Question: Can we build a consortium with common goals/interests to approach high-level funders, even in the current climate? Question: Do we have enough evidence to convince the (funding) sceptics of the value of virtual worlds?
- 6. Moving Forward Do we want to meet regularly in a virtual space? Do we want to meet physically early in 2011? Do we need Terms of Reference/Governance etc? If not now, when? Do we need a name (and logo and website etc)?
- 7. Moving Forward Do we want to meet regularly in a virtual space? Do we want to meet physically early in 2011? Do we need Terms of Reference/Governance etc? If not now, when? Do we need a name (and logo and website etc)?