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Media Grid News World's leading immersive learning experts and practitioners convene April 23-25 in Boston |
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BOSTON, MA - December 16, 2009 - The Immersive Education Initiative today issued an open call for papers and presentations for the Immersive Education 2010 Summit. On April 23-25 Boston College will host the three-day conference through special arrangement with the Woods College of Advancing Studies at Boston College. The Immersive Education Initiative is a non-profit international collaboration of universities, colleges, research institutes, consortia and companies that are working together to define and develop open standards, best practices, platforms, and communities of support for virtual worlds, learning games, simulations, and mixed/augmented reality. Thousands of faculty, teachers, researchers, staff, administrators and students are members of the Immersive Education Initiative. Paper and Presentation Abstracts : JANUARY 31 DEADLINEMembers of the global academic community are invited to submit paper and presentation abstracts at http://MediaGrid.org/summit in response to this call by January 31, 2010. Abstracts must be received on or before January 31, 2010. Visit http://MediaGrid.org/summit for details and submission instructions. 2010 Summit Overview
The world's leading experts in virtual worlds, learning games, educational simulations, and mixed/augmented reality convene April 23-25 in Boston for the Immersive Education 2010 Summit. Attendance is open to the global education community. Organized specifically for educators, researchers, and administrators, the three-day 2010 Summit consists of presentations, panel discussions, break-out sessions and workshops that provide attendees with an in-depth overview of immersive learning platforms and technologies. The conference will feature new and emerging immersive learning platforms, teaching tools, techniques, technologies, standards, and best practices. The Education Grid, Project Wonderland, Second Life, realXtend, Cobalt, and Open Simulator are among the immersive learning technologies that will be featured. Members of the Initiative's open file format, library, psychology, mixed reality, and K-12 (kindergarten through high school) groups will give special presentations and workshops at the Summit. Speakers and PanelistsSpeakers and panelists from past Immersive Education Initiative Summits include faculty, researchers, and administrators from The Grid Institute, Boston College, Loyola Marymount University, M.I.T. Media Lab, Harvard University, United States Department of Education, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Federation of American Scientists (FAS), The Smithsonian Institution, Sun Microsystems, Duke University, Southeast Kansas Education Service Center, Immersive Education High School, South Park Elementary, Cornell University, Amherst College, New Media Consortium, Kauffman Foundation, Boston Library Consortium, Montana State University, Boston Media High School, realXtend (Finland), The MOFET Institute (Israel), University of Aizu (Japan), Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden), University of Essex (UK), Coventry University (UK), Giunti Labs (Italy) and European Learning Industry Group, Open University (UK), and more. Early RegistrationEarly registration is open until January 31 at the discounted rate of $199 USD (U.S. dollars) per seat. Seating is limited to 300 attendees, and is expected to reach capacity during the early registration period (a strict limit of 5 seats per registrant applies). After January 31st the full registration rate of $275 USD (U.S. dollars) per seat applies. Thousands of Members Worldwide
The Immersive Education Initiative is a non-profit international collaboration of universities, colleges, research institutes, consortia and companies that are working together to define and develop open standards, best practices, platforms, and communities of support for virtual reality and game-based learning and training systems. Thousands of faculty, teachers, researchers, staff, administrators and students are members of the Immersive Education Initiative, which is growing at the rate of over 60 new members every month.
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