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The SLOODLE Virtual World Learning Environment
This event took place on Monday 30 November 2009 at 14:30

 
Dr. Daniel Livingstone University of West Scotland

In this presentation, Daniel Livingstone will outline the open-source SLOODLE project. SLOODLE integrates two very distinct learning environments – Second Life and Moodle. SLOODLE hopes to build on the distinct strengths of both while also supporting a range of teaching and learning activities in the visually and socially rich 3D environment through back-end integration with the Moodle VLE. As Moodle provides a range of tools which tutors can adopt and adapt to suit their own classes, so too does SLOODLE – a range which is continually under development based on feedback from the SLOODLE community itself. The presentation will include an overview of the concepts driving SLOODLE, the history of the project and current and recent developments, including examples of how SLOODLE has been used to support tutors and learners around the world. Daniel will conclude with a brief review of open research questions and directions relating to virtual world learning environments.

There will also be an opportunity to discuss current virtual worlds activity and ideas for further use of virtual worlds at the OU with colleagues, including Anna Peachey, Greg Withnail and Kevin Mayles from the LIO Virtual Worlds project.

Tea and coffee will be provided. Please email learning-innovation@open.ac.uk if you are attending so we can cater for you.

 
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Future Internet
With over a billion users, today's Internet is arguably the most successful human artifact ever created. The Internet's physical infrastructure, software, and content now play an integral part of the lives of everyone on the planet, whether they interact with it directly or not. Now nearing its fifth decade, the Internet has shown remarkable resilience and flexibility in the face of ever increasing numbers of users, data volume, and changing usage patterns, but faces growing challenges in meetings the needs of our knowledge society. Globally, many major initiatives are underway to address the need for more scientific research, physical infrastructure investment, better education, and better utilisation of the Internet. Within Japan, USA and Europe major new initiatives have begun in the area.

To succeed the Future Internet will need to address a number of cross-cutting challenges including:

  • Scalability in the face of peer-to-peer traffic, decentralisation, and increased openness

  • Trust when government, medical, financial, personal data are increasingly trusted to the cloud, and middleware will increasingly use dynamic service selection

  • Interoperability of semantic data and metadata, and of services which will be dynamically orchestrated

  • Pervasive usability for users of mobile devices, different languages, cultures and physical abilities

  • Mobility for users who expect a seamless experience across spaces, devices, and velocities