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== =University of Oregon's Immersive Education Days=

==9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. UO Alternate Reality Game : "Eugene vs. the EcoZombies" ==




**Monday, October 19th, 2009**
 === 9:00 a.m. Welcome and introductions: An overview of Immersive Education (Aaron Walsh / Jonathon Richter) === 

 === 10:00 a.m. The 3DVE Project : Collaboration in geo-distributed business using 3D virtual worlds (Alan Meyer / Kathryn Aten / Taryn Stanko: University of Oregon ) ===

=== 11:00 a.m. Visual and Performing Arts in 3D Virtual Worlds (Anthony Fontana: Bowling Green University ) ===

=== 1:00 p.m. MyChina Village: A Third Paradigm of Language Learning (Sachiko Kamioka:  University of Oregon) ===

===<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;"> 2:00 p.m. Learning and Assessment in Virtual Worlds (Daniel Livingstone: University of the West of Scotland<span class="wiki_link_new"><span class="wiki_link_ext"> & Jeremy Kemp: <span class="wiki_link_new">San Jose State University ) ===

===<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;"> 3:00 p.m. Designing and building immersive education spaces using Project Wonderland: from pedagogy through to practice (Warren Sheaffer: <span class="wiki_link_new">St Paul Community College & Michael Gardner: <span class="wiki_link_new">University of Essex ) ===

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==<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; text-align: left;"> 9:00 a.m. MMORPG, MUVE? What's the Difference?: Using a Taxonomy to Define Virtual Worlds (Sarah Robbins: Indiana University<span class="wiki_link_new"> ) ==

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==<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; text-align: left;">10:00 a.m. Explorations of Second Life by Psychology Students (Marjorie Taylor: University of Oregon<span class="wiki_link_new"> ) ==

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==<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; text-align: left;">11:00 a.m. Teaching computer programming and gaming development to high school students in Second Life (Jim Bailey: Lane Community College / Jonathon Richter: <span class="wiki_link_new"> University of Oregon) ==

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==<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; text-align: left;">1:00 p.m. MERLOT 3D: The Center for Learning in Virtual Environments in Second Life (Indresh Chauhan: <span class="wiki_link_new"> Sify Technologies) ==

==<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; text-align: left;">2:00 p.m. "They became what they beheld: Immersion and identity in virtual environments" (Ken Hudson: <span class="wiki_link_new"> Virtual World Design Centre, <span class="wiki_link_new"> Loyalist College<span class="wiki_link_new"> ) ==