Participants:
University of
Sophia-Antipolis, various departments, student
initiatives
Sebastien
Canus bidou@pacwan.azur.fr
Philippe
Benthien benthien@riviera.fr
Patrice
Arnera 101323.2632@compuserve.com
Eric
Busch 101620.1036@compuserve.com
David
Villechaise villechaise@ceram.fr
TheU Project, Contact
Consortium
Knowledge for Tomorrow,
for Dutch Minister of Education, culture and
science
Notes
Concept to create virtual
workshop, use VRML, 6 different corridors,
leading to other specific rooms
- Communication,
leading to mass media etc
- Arts relating to
multimedia and networks
- Up to date topics on
multimedia
- harmonizing media
- professionally
oriented
Examples of innovative
education:
- Coop program
- How does such and
architecture support such as system
- SITN stanford
interactive tv network
- Add experiencd to
the program
- Harvard advanced MBA
all simulation, new models of education
Where will we go to in 15
years, knowledge for tomorrow, what do we need
now?
Knowledge is aging so fast
we expect university to go to 2 year programs
done in intervals
Each room has un chef de
salle
- Could be an expert
in a field or professor, not necessarily
a teacher
More Elements
- To keep up to date
on newtech, professionals connecting to
get help today for work tomorrow
- People come
together, discuss, build projects,
practice connected intelligence online in
a structured environment, diffuse ideas,
with a library to file all documents
- Use corridors to
draw people to subjects
- Content is brought
in by people from all over the world
- Debates are hosted
in the environment
Architecture should contain
structures to support this?
- Documents
- list of discussions
- visual newsgroups
- databases
Methods for capturing
knowledge:
- documents in world
- capture logs
- logs: choice to
capture
- contract
- whisper
- people stealing
ideas
Methods of communication
- text chat
- voice
- voice with video
- gestures
- emotions?
- Passing documents
- whiteboards
sketchpads
- graphity wall on net
- simulation of
instruments to train, field training
videos
- running of software
on students computers, training
- experience speaks
- forums where people
can share experiences
- USC film school,
teaching the lifestyle of the profession
Norms and values will be
defined and developing over time.
We can use reconfigurable
classrooms:
- from circle to
sphere
- need to call in
chairman as moderator if sizes exceed
Use of BOTS in the virtual
university:
- automated serving of
classrooms and instructors
- instructor-bot
- librarian-bot
- guides
- staff: librarian,
guides, intelligent agent
- people finder bots
The Rooms and Corridor Model
Branched corridors with bots
(refiners), corridors lead to services,
classrooms, discussion areas, libraries.
The university is filtered,
corridors etc are open depending on these
choices.
Example: psychology to
social systems, bots in branches and rooms,
Rooms for:
- simulation
- subset libraries
- discussions
- message boards
We must consider the
language and culture and age of students,
therefore we have to develop a series of filters
for theU
- language
- age
- culture
- disposition and
character of students
Means testing for entry into
courses
- Exams
- Students to judge
where they are
Qualification of studies
- Curriculum
- Open u or
specialized?
- Accreditation
- peer review of work
- commentary
- publication?
Open university model
- offers modules
- put together modules
for degree or could just take modules
Publication in the virtual u
- papers and jouirnals
- publications of
complete books
- textbooks, fully
indexed into libraries
Enviromorphing stated by
your profile
- libraries
- people
- buildings
- services
Your
use of the environment, experiences morph your
profile, opens new doors
What education is here?
- A Journey through
the u, the world
- Enviromorphic
- End of mass, back to
old model of mentors and followers,
leonardo dv
- Not a pushU,
exchange, pullU
- Pushes When do you
need a little suggestion
Character of the students
- active
- passive
- exploring, may
bounce around
- participatory
- sedatory
- isolated workers
- leaders
- followers
- social
- need individual
tutors
Handling interruptions etc:
instructor gets side list of questions which may
be answered by other students so instructor does
not have to stop.
How do you manage group
dynamics, standard label for type of person.
- Automatic seating of
students based on their type.. back row
versus front row. Can leave without
disturbing others.
- Non disturbing ways
of leaving, star trek
- environment will
change around you
- Marking avatars to
level of knowlege, dunce cap versus
graduation doctoral cap vs hard hat
Lifestyle necessary in a
profession?
- Orientation to
unversity or professions for entering,
intested students
- Career selection
- Speak with other
students about their experiences
There is a difference
between studying versus working in the subject:
use of the simulation room, contact of
professionals in industry The virtual U bridges
the world of theory and the subject with everyday
working application and the professional
lifestyle. Lifelong learning, knowledge for
tomorrow is literally tomorrow.
Lastly, this effort should encourage the
connexion between unversities and companies
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