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We live in a world of rapidly changing technologies that bathe us in visual images and information, not only challenging us to find connections and make sense of what we are learning, but also allowing us to learn and to collaborate in new ways. Art educators are using one of these new technologies, virtual worlds, to create educational environments and curricula. This study looks at how post-secondary art educators are using Second Life in their undergraduate and graduate level curricula and what perceived benefits, challenges, and unique learning experiences they feel this new educational venue offers. This study uses qualitative and participant observation methodologies, including qualitative interviews, observations, and collection of generated works, to look at the practices of six art educators teaching university level undergraduate and graduate courses. Data are compared internally between the participants and externally by correlating to current research. Art education in Second Life includes many curricula activities and strategies often seen in face-to-face classes, including writing reflections, essays, and papers, creating presentations and Power Points, conducting research, and creating art. Challenges include expense, student frustration and anxiety issues, and the transience of Second Life sites. Among the unique learning experiences are increased opportunities for field trips, student collaboration, access to guest speakers, and the ability to set up experiences not practical or possible in the real world. The experiences of these six art educators can be used as a guide for art educators just beginning exploration of virtual world education and encouragement when looking for new ways to teach that may increase our students' understanding and knowledge and their access and connections to others.
ContributorsSchlegel, Deborah (Author) / Stokrocki, Mary (Thesis advisor) / Erickson, Mary (Committee member) / Young, Bernard (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2014
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Interactive remote e-learning is one of the youngest and most popular methods that is used in today's teaching method. WebRTC, on the other hand, has become the popular concept and method in real time communication. Unlike the old fashioned Adobe Flash, user will communicate directly to each other rather than calling server as the middle man. The world is changing from plug-in to web-browser. However, the WebRTC have not been widely used for school education.
By taking into consideration of the WebRTC solution for data transferring, we propose a new Cloud based interactive multimedia which enables virtual lab learning environment. Three modules were proposed along with an efficient solution for achieving optimized network bandwidth. The One-to-Many communication was introduced in the video conferencing and scalability was tested for the application. The key technical contribution is to establish a sufficient system that designed to utilize the WebRTC in its best way in educational world in the Vlab platform and reduces the tool cost and improves online learning experience.
By taking into consideration of the WebRTC solution for data transferring, we propose a new Cloud based interactive multimedia which enables virtual lab learning environment. Three modules were proposed along with an efficient solution for achieving optimized network bandwidth. The One-to-Many communication was introduced in the video conferencing and scalability was tested for the application. The key technical contribution is to establish a sufficient system that designed to utilize the WebRTC in its best way in educational world in the Vlab platform and reduces the tool cost and improves online learning experience.
ContributorsLi, Qingyun (Author) / Huang, Dijiang (Thesis advisor) / Davulcu, Hasan (Committee member) / Dasgupta, Partha (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2014
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Cloud computing systems fundamentally provide access to large pools of data and computational resources through a variety of interfaces similar in spirit to existing grid and HPC resource management and programming systems. These types of systems offer a new programming target for scalable application developers and have gained popularity over the past few years. However, most cloud computing systems in operation today are proprietary and rely upon infrastructure that is invisible to the research community, or are not explicitly designed to be instrumented and modified by systems researchers. In this research, Xen Server Management API is employed to build a framework for cloud computing that implements what is commonly referred to as Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS); systems that give users the ability to run and control entire virtual machine instances deployed across a variety physical resources. The goal of this research is to develop a cloud based resource and service sharing platform for Computer network security education a.k.a Virtual Lab.
ContributorsKadne, Aniruddha (Author) / Huang, Dijiang (Thesis advisor) / Tsai, Wei-Tek (Committee member) / Ahn, Gail-Joon (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2010