Today the OWL community meetings were starting over again. Two of our students were talking about their Master’s Thesis: Lisa Tomes is developing tools to support exploratory collaborative learning settings in the form of scavenger hunts in OWL. This includes (a) an itemise functionality, which provides objects with info texts, (b) an info inventory, (c) […]
At the 6th International Conference, S-BPM ONE 2014, Eichstätt, Germany, April 22-23, 2014 we presented a Virtual World for progressive education for S-BPM in Open Wonderland. The chapter can be found here. Abstract. The work described in this paper combines our existing work on virtual 3D worlds and progressive education, applying it in order to support […]
For SIGCSE2014 I have prepared two posters. The first one is about engagement strategies in classroom. The second one demonstrates a learning and working environment for students in Virtual Worlds: Motivational Active Learning Virtual Programming World
The paper “Science Fiction Prototyping: Flexible Settings in Immersive Environments” presents an in-depth analysis of the importance of innovative Science Fiction Prototyping systems in different sectors with focus on educational aspects and the support of virtual environments. Therefor we investigate the utility of Science Fiction Prototypes in different environments and introduce a design model to implement flexible […]
Technology Enabled Active Learning (TEAL) is a learning approach designed based on the interactive engagement learning method. It was developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and successfully improves the efficiency of teaching freshmen physics. TEAL uses especially designed classrooms, hands-on experiments, and the simulation software TEALsim for three-dimensional visualizations to enhance the conceptual understanding […]