An On-line Environment For The Interactive Study of The Ancient World Why... Reconstruction : Experiential Learning Immersion : learning about e.g. architecture, but also social and cultural meaning/values of physical environment Interaction and engagement – perspective taking

Early Days – MOD on Game Engines

Simulations in UT2004

Model Construction -> Archive -> Simulation

Machu Picchu - Maps

Machu Picchu - Overview

Machu Picchu - Photos

Machu Picchu - Sketches

Machu Picchu - Modeling

Machu Picchu - Texturing

Piece-by-piece Reconstruction

Replicating Texture (Drawing Cracks)

Model + Photo Realistic Texture

Machu Picchu - Construction

Machu Picchu - Rendering

Ancient Egypt - Maps

Nisga'a Village - Maps

Nisga'a - Photos

Nisga'a - Sketches

Nisga'a - Modeling

Nisga'a - Texturing

Nisga'a - Construction

Ancient Spaces Editor Run Editor

Dwell On It - http://dwellonit.blogspot.com/search/label/people Nevillehobson blog - http://www.nevillehobson.com/2006/06/24/get-a-second-life-now/

Why are we doing all this?

Where are the Learners?

Moving towards On-line Learning 3.0 Online Learning 3.0 Community/Context-Centered Online Learning 2.0 Student-Centered Online Learning 1.0 Course-Centered Proprietary Enterprise LMS/CMSs Application Services Open Source Open Source 3D Meta-Medium

Open Croquet In order to reach online learning 3.0, we turned to existing multi-user simulation engines, Second Life was the first attempt:

Arts Metaverse Demo http://ancient.arts.ubc.ca Arts Metaverse in Croquet 1.0