Category Archives: Distance Education

BadgEd

BadgEd (Open Digital Badges) is a mechanism to offer achievement and participation badges to those engaged in educational and other experiences. https://www.ed.ac.uk/information-services/learning-technology/more/badged-open-digital-badges The University of Edinburgh offers the BadgEd scheme – https://uoe.eu.badgr.com/ – based on the Open Badges Platform – … Continue reading

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Virtual World Best Practice in Education 2023

The 16th Virtual World Best Practice in Education 2023 online conference titled “Uncommon Realities” took place in Second Life on 23rd March to 25th March 2023. The event organised by https://www.vwbpe.org/ focuses on the use of immersive virtual environments for … Continue reading

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Virtual Worlds Technology for University of Edinburgh

Vue is a virtual educational and research institute bringing together all those interested in the use of virtual worlds for teaching, research and outreach related to the University of Edinburgh. This post summarises some of the virtual worlds technology that … Continue reading

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Sinespace – RGU Oil Rig at Night

The RGU Oil Rig is now in a single region which is on a one hour day/night cycle (similar to that used on Second Life). Visit via http://sine.space/locations/oil-rig The RGU Oil Rig 3D model and virtual world environment in OpenSimulator … Continue reading

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Edinburgh MOOCs

On 3rd October 2016 a celebration of the first 5 years of University of Edinburgh Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) took place in the Playfair Library in the University’s Old College. 35 MOOCs on three MOOC platforms (Coursera, EdX and … Continue reading

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AI Planning MOOC on Open.Ed

Open.Ed is the University of Edinburgh’s portal for its Open Education Resources. OERs are online resources that are available for others to use to support learning. They are part of a worldwide movement to promote and support sustainable educational development. … Continue reading

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AI Planning MOOC Interview

The Learning, Teaching and Web Services at Edinburgh University have commissioned a paper for the senior management team that focuses on using the existing evidence base of Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) data, the experience and motivation of design teams … Continue reading

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Innovators Showcase – Open Educational Resources

The University of Edinburgh has published a showcase of innovative teaching and educational methods (edited by Ellen Spaeth). An entry for my work on the AI Planning MOOC and the use of openly accessible educational resources and tools to build … Continue reading

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Coursera AI Planning MOOC 2015 – Virtual World Meeting 27-Jan-2015

The third meeting of the 2015 AI Planning MOOC group session took place in Second Life on Tuesday 27th January 2015 at 7pm UT/GMT.

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Coursera AI Planning MOOC 2015 – First Virtual World Meeting

The first meeting of the 2015 AI Planning MOOC group session took place in Second Life on Tuesday 13th January 2015 at 7pm UT/GMT on “The Venue@Vue” meeting area on the Virtual University of Edinburgh (Vue). For more details of … Continue reading

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Digital Education Visit to Informatics Virtual Wonderland

The Digital Education team in the School of Education and the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh have worked together over the last decade on a range of virtual worlds and immersive experience activities relevant to research, learning … Continue reading

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2014 Virtual University of Edinburgh Graduation – School of Education

For six years since 2009 the University of Edinburgh has offered its distance education and remote new graduates the option to graduate in Second Life, alongside the real world ceremony in the McEwan Hall on Edinburgh’s campus. Such Virtual Graduations … Continue reading

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Online Learning @ Edinburgh Marketing

The University today (9th May 2014) ran a workshop for those engaged in online learning course promotion within the University. A new marketing kit with graphical items and style recommendations is available… EASE login required. Online Learning @ Edinburgh Staff … Continue reading

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Experiments with Webots 6.4.4

In AIAI, we used to use Webots to simulate the Sony AIBO for our experiments in “Project AIBO – Robotic Task Achieving Teams” using URBI. The University of Edinburgh School of Informatics robotics classes use Webots as a robot simulator … Continue reading

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