Session Title: Virtual 3-D Learning: Getting the Discussion Started

 

Session Number: 645

 

Room: Monterrey 2/3

 

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

 

Formats: Discussion

 

Session Description: Getting started with 3-D/virtual worlds learning? Let's take a collective look at several routes that organizations are taking in experimenting with and deploying 3-D learning environments. This is for both total novices as well as organizations with 3-D Learning experiments underway.

 

• Experimenting and sandboxing
• Using internal and/or external designers
• Costs, hurdles, tips and tricks

 

Led by: Randy Hinrichs - MASIE Learning Fellow

 

Randy Hinrichs is the CEO of 2b3d, a company that builds strategies and virtual world content for Fortune 1000 companies. Before starting his own company, he was at Microsoft for 10 years working in eLearning, eScience, ePublishing and intranets. He found and led Microsoft Research's learning science research efforts, creating Microsoft's first open source platform for teaching and learning: ConferenceXP. He managed a $6M/year budget funding leading universities and industries in game-based learning, internet-based laboratories, academic web services, and pen-based mobile computing. Randy serves on several science and engineering boards and committees - among them are the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology and the National Academy of Engineering, Randy is also a MASIE Learning Fellow consulting on next generation learning technologies.

 

 

 

Led by: David S. Anderson - Countrywide Home Loans

 

David Anderson is the AVP of Instructional Design and Development for Countrywide Home Loans where he supports both ILT and elearning teams. He has over 15 years in multimedia learning, instructional design and content development.

 

In addition to doing what he’s “supposed to do” David spends his remaining time advocating and creating prototypes around emerging technologies including virtual worlds.

 

 

“Anyone can build in Second Life. This is just like 10 years ago when instructional designers started learning Authorware. Their companies didn’t hire vendors. IDs were told to learn it and we did. Second Life is just another application in our toolkit.

 

We're still figuring this out. There are too many lessons learned along the way. We have made so many changes based on both learner and stakeholder feedback. Had this project been contracted we’d have spent many times the initial investment. The bottom line is this technology is important but it’s still emerging.”

 

Today David and his team continue experimenting in-world, hosting informal pilots, and redesigning as necessary based on lessons learned with internal designers and trainers. The build demo'd at L7 will be taken down this week and new development will begin.

 

 

 

 

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