Is the future of teaching and learning; Developing COLLECTIVE knowledge - through the CONNECTION of people - in 3Dimensions?
This presentation looks at the reality of predictions from the New Media Consortium in the 5 years from 2004 to 2008.and the three mega trends that have emerge. These trends indicate new forms of Scholarship, Socialization and Interaction that reflects the new learning theories developed by George Seimans (2004) and others. It is a future that is offered by virtual worlds and large scale multiuser gaming environments.
Second Life is but one example of a virtual world that despite all its adverse publicity offers a possible glimpse into the future where Learning Management Systems, such as Moodle are integrated into a virtual world to produce a new entity, SLOODLE. The result is not so much a hybrid system but a glimpse of new and emerging pedagogical and methodological approaches in education, with its own new set of challenges.
