Opening Welcome and Overview Presentation to the Oregon Immersive Education by Jonathon Richter

1. October 14th, 15th, & 16th, 2010 Welcome to Oregon Immersive Education Days Collaboration Center 175 McKenzie Hall University of Oregon Sponsored by UO Information Services and The Center for Learning in Virtual Environments

3. Hashtag: #oied2010 Developing and celebrating the capacity for Oregon public, commercial, and non-profit educational institutions and their affiliates to create, assess, and use effective 3D virtual environments including video games, virtual worlds, augmented reality experiences and other emerging immersive technologies for learning in formal and informal settings.

7. Virtual Learning Environments Learning simulations transfer engagement Authentic assessment Distributed learning Verisimilitude collaboration “ Psychology is the physics of virtual worlds” (Bricker) persistence motivation Performance-based learning construction community Imagination and possibility space

8. Learning Engagement Motivation Persistence Interaction Instructional Design Professional Development Event Coordination Instruction Assessment (and Play)

16. All registered OiED Conference Members are invited to help develop: http://immersiveoregon2010.wikispaces.com/ And share our projects and plans in the Oregon Immersive Education Forum On OCCDLA Island on Saturday for the OiED closing session.

17. Open invitational dinner at Track Town Pizza Thursday, 6:30 p.m. 1809 Franklin Blvd 541.284.8484