{"id":168,"date":"2017-10-26T23:11:45","date_gmt":"2017-10-27T06:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/commons.bellevuecollege.edu\/jamesriggall\/?p=168"},"modified":"2017-10-30T00:19:54","modified_gmt":"2017-10-30T07:19:54","slug":"bc-elearning-center-brings-virtual-reality-to-the-2017-nwelearn-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commons.bellevuecollege.edu\/jamesriggall\/2017\/10\/26\/bc-elearning-center-brings-virtual-reality-to-the-2017-nwelearn-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"BC eLearning Center brings Virtual Reality to the 2017 NW eLearn Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"

BC eLearning Makes\u00a0a Case: Using\u00a0Virtual Reality Tech for Teaching at Bellevue College<\/h4>\n

On October 18th, 19th and 20th members of the Bellevue College eLearning Center staff attended the 2017 NWeLearn Conference<\/a>, which promotes itself as the place “where teaching, learning and technology converge”.<\/p>\n

The reason for this trip was to connect with other tech-based educators in the Northwest, discuss online teaching issues and introduce virtual reality displays\u00a0as an emerging approach for technology-enhanced education.\u00a0 We also laid out our plan for teaching two new courses in virtual reality design and communications\u00a0at Bellevue College as a way to bring attention to this new medium, for students and faculty alike.<\/p>\n

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James Riggall, Bruce Wolcott and Vivienne McClendon describe the Collaboratory within the Bellevue College library and RISE learning center. Photo credit: Gordon Hom<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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How to Connect Worlds 8000 Miles Apart<\/h4>\n
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James Riggall describes makerspaces and plans for a long distance learning lab.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Makerspaces are technology equipped informal learning\u00a0 spaces that put mentors and students together to build projects ranging from drones to virtual reality communities. Fulbright scholar James Riggall has spent close to a decade creating makerspaces in Tasmania, notably in the cities of\u00a0Launceston and Hobart.<\/p>\n

During the conference, Riggall outlined his plan for helping Bellevue College create\u00a0a makerspace learning community at the RISE project-based teaching center and BC library Collaboratory space. A long distance learning lab is planned to make use of virtual reality networking, video conferencing, and other communications tools to connect makerspace teams in Tasmania and Bellevue College.<\/p>\n

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Opening the Doors of Perception\u00a0with VR<\/h4>\n

A primary objective for the Bellevue College eLearning team was to provide hands-on immersive virtual reality experiences to online teaching administrators and instructors – most of whom had never tried it before.\u00a0 For many, it was a transformative experience.<\/p>\n

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Bellevue College eLearning instructor Keith Rowley demonstrates the Vive VR headset with\u00a0BC library dean,\u00a0Vivienne McClendon. Photo credit: Gordon Hom<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

eLearning faculty from all over the Northwest had a chance to try virtual reality for the first time, with comments such as “Amazing”,
\n“Wow”, “Fantastic”, and “I’ve never seen anything like this!”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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\u00a0Roll On Columbia<\/h3>\n

On the\u00a0road back from Pasco to Seattle, Washington,\u00a0 members of the BC eLearning crew\u00a0Keith Rowley, James Riggall and Bruce Wolcott stopped for a photo break on the Columbia River.\u00a0 The sudden switch from green Cascade Mountains to the dry arid plains of Eastern Washington was a startling change for Tasmania native James Riggall.<\/p>\n

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Keith Rowley, James Riggall and Bruce Wolcott stop for a photo break on the Columbia River in Eastern Washington State. Photo credit: Gordon Hom<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BC eLearning Makes\u00a0a Case: Using\u00a0Virtual Reality Tech for Teaching at Bellevue College On October 18th, 19th and 20th members of the Bellevue College eLearning Center staff attended the 2017 NWeLearn Conference, which promotes itself as the place “where teaching, learning and technology converge”. The reason for this trip was to connect with other tech-based educators … Continue reading BC eLearning Center brings Virtual Reality to the 2017 NW eLearn Conference<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":100,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chronicle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.bellevuecollege.edu\/jamesriggall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.bellevuecollege.edu\/jamesriggall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.bellevuecollege.edu\/jamesriggall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.bellevuecollege.edu\/jamesriggall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/100"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.bellevuecollege.edu\/jamesriggall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/commons.bellevuecollege.edu\/jamesriggall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308,"href":"https:\/\/commons.bellevuecollege.edu\/jamesriggall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions\/308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.bellevuecollege.edu\/jamesriggall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.bellevuecollege.edu\/jamesriggall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.bellevuecollege.edu\/jamesriggall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}