Workshops WSH504
Practical Teaching in Virtual Reality Classrooms - Morning Workshop
Date Friday, Dec 4 Time – Room
Willi Bernhard
Professor, Swiss Distance University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland
Willi Bernhard is a professor at the Swiss Distance University of Applied Sciences located in Brig.
He works as an engineer, lecturer, researcher, consultant and author in the fields of Digital-Collaboration, Computer Simulation, Serious Games, Digital Learning and Creativity Training.
He received several innovation awards in the field of simulation technology, is a member of the Board of Swiss Engineering STV „Section Basel“ and head of the Special Interest Group "Digital Collaboration" at the Swiss E-Learning Community of Higher Education Institutions.
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Oliver Kamin
Head of Department Computer Science, Swiss Distance University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland
Bodo Möslein-Tröppner
Professor, Duale Hochschule Baden-Württemberg, Ravensburg, Germany
Prof. Dr. Möslein-Tröppner has many years of experience in industry and trade. His main focus in research and teaching is in the areas of supply chain management, process management and market research as well as new learning methods. He is Professor at DHBW Ravensburg.
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http://www.ravensburg.dhbw.de/startseit…
Would you like to start using avatar-based meetings in virtual reality environments for teaching and learning?
Some advantages of teaching, learning and collaboration in VR rooms are that all students are noticeably in the same room, can see and hear each other immediately and even have an impressive experience in 3D and 360 degrees (though participation without special VR equipment and with a variety of devices, such as desktops, laptops, tablets or smartphones can participate too).
VR environments such as AltspaceVR and Mozilla Hubs are available free of charge and offer ready-made spaces in which different learning scenarios can become a reality. In this pre-conference workshop you will be able to experience and experiment with interaction and teaching scenarios in VR spaces of Mozilla Hubs.
Join us to learn how to put a specific VR classroom into operation and how to invite students to your learning environment. We will use a variety of free VR spaces and you will be able to participate with your own avatar with or without VR equipment.
Participants are invited to use their laptop or, if available, their VR device.
Mozilla Hubs is browser-based, therefore no installation is needed. It runs on Windows, OSX, Android, IOS and all VR-Devices which can start VR-Applikations in a browser.
Agenda
Introduction into VR-Classroom teaching (15 Min)
Introduction into VR-Spaces of Mozilla Hubs (15 Min)
Browser-based VR classroom-meeting with Mozilla hubs (60 Min)
• First experiences and interaction possibilities in different VR rooms
• Practical Teaching scenarios
Further possibilities, discussion and exchange of your own ideas for teaching (30 Min)
Please note: To participate in this free workshop, you will need to pre-register via the conference registration form. The workshop is conducted twice, starting at 10:30 and at 13:30.