Just like edtech companies have been quick at integrating ChatGPT and other generative AI tools into their products, tech-savvy teachers and teacher trainers are already developing courses to teach the skills to use generative AI for various teaching- or learning-related…
With an increase in interest in virtual reality for education and the developments around the metaverse, I get asked by publishing and teaching professionals what makes good learning experiences in VR and how to write lesson plans for immersive language…
Immersion is one of the main affordances of virtual reality, but, ‘Despite the multitude of application areas, there is no common understanding about what makes VR immersive’ (Winkler et al., 2020). However, it is important to understand what exactly it…
Have you heard about the metaverse or virtual reality? ‘Silly question’ you will say. ‘I can’t hear it anymore! Why should I care about cartoon worlds, avatars, digital fashion, and cryptocurrency as a language teacher?’ Or perhaps you actually have…
Technical definition …a new iteration of the World Wide Web which incorporates concepts such as decentralization, blockchain technologies, and token-based economics. Practical Web 1.0 – read Web 2.0 – read, write Web3* – read, write, own (*not to be confused with Web 3.0) Characteristics…
Tataaam! Drumroll! ?A historic moment! I participated in the first ever real MOOC in 2008. The famous CK08 course called ‘Connectivism and Connective Knowledge’. * And now, I’m participating in: The world’s first university delivered MOOC taught 100% on-chain and…
It makes total business sense to do this in order to generate additional income from secondary sales of used books, but I didn’t expect NFT adoption in the publishing industry to happen so fast. My thoughts: ✅ I’m wondering whether Pearson will…
I thoroughly enjoyed chatting about online immersive learning with Graham Stanley, who invited me to his Morning Break radio show. We talked about some of my favourite topics: ???? Immersive language learning in virtual reality???? The metaverse???? The need for digital skills…
The 7th Future of English language Teaching Conference (FOELT) took place on Saturday, 11th June, 2022. The abstract of my talk There has been a lot of talk about the metaverse in the past year, and language teachers, teacher trainers…
Read part one on note-taking in virtual reality first. Writing (and also reading) is difficult in fully immersive virtual reality because the user is wearing a headset. While engineers are working on the technology and coming up with solutions, I…