Session Title: 3-D is Coming: an Open Gaming and Simulation Platform

 

Session Number: 237

 

Room: Fiesta 9

 

Day and Timeslot: Monday - 11:15am to 12:15pm

 

Formats: Discussion

 

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Session Description: This session discusses the feasibility of establishing a global consortium of corporations, private foundations, government agencies, universities, primary and secondary schools, and nonprofit organizations that would use a persistent open source 3-D gaming and simulation development platform to implement creative new approaches in education and training. Worldwide participants would contribute to an increasing inventory of interoperable objects and the platform itself would be continuously improved by the consortium's varied user bases. The session will explore how a consortium can be designed to serve the practical needs of corporate training, including how materials that would be freely shared by an open community can cut the cost of developing new courses - some of which would be protected and proprietary.

 

• The major role that 3-D environments can play in promoting learning
• Tradeoffs in both virtual worlds and consortia to run them
• Developing sustainable platforms and strong participation in such environments on the part of diverse users

 

Led by: Dennis Cheek - Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation

 

 

Dennis Cheek is VP of Education at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation in Kansas City, MO. The foundation focuses nationally on education and entrepreneurship. Dennis has worked as a senior administrator in two state education departments, superintendent of schools, curriculum developer, classroom teacher, university professor, pastor, auxiliary USAF chaplain, business consultant, and nonprofit executive. He holds a Ph.D. from Penn State and a Ph.D. from Durham University

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Led by: Henry Kelly - Federation of American Scientists

 

 

 

Henry Kelly is the President of the Federation of American Scientists. Henry was Assistant Director for Technology in the White House's Office of Science and Technology for 8 years where he convened the President's Information Technology Advisory Committee, a Senior Associate at the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment, and Assistant Director for the Solar Energy Research Institute. He received a PhD in Physics from Harvard University.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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