By Cynthia Karena, Whyalla News
Remote students interacted with teachers and students in the physical classroom in a context similar to that of Second Life, the 3D virtual world in which people socialise and connect using voice and text chat. The Macquarie trial was conducted as part of an Australian Learning and Teaching Council project focusing on blended synchronous learning. The project emerged from collaboration between Macquarie’s Informatics, Department of Education, Learning and Teaching Centre, Sustainability and Audio Visual Technology teams. Remote students created their own avatars, cartoon-like online representations of themselves that engaged with the teacher and students in the classroom who could see and hear them through a video stream projection using AvayaLive Engage virtual world (running on Amazon Web Services infrastructure). It uses 3D visuals, high-definition video and spatial audio.
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