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Wednesday Feb 18, 2009
Immersive Education - European Summit
The Immersive Education European Summit will launch in London on April 23-24, 2009. Hosted by the London School of Economics (LSE), IE Europe is a special two-day conference dedicated to new and emerging virtual world and game-based learning platforms, technology, standards, learning content, and best practices for Immersive Education. As with the 2008 Boston Summit, the London Summit is an anchor event and will feature a number of speakers, presentations, panel discussions, round tables, and break-out sessions on Immersive Education including feature talks on Project Wonderland by SunLabs Bernard Horan and Essex University's creator of the MiRTLE Mixed-Reality Classroom project, Dr. Michael Gardner.
Details for the LONDON SUMMIT will be posted to the Immersive Education Initiative home page at: http://ImmersiveEducation.org or at http://mediagrid.org/. Registration for the event will open soon. The per-person cost for the 2-day conference is $275 US Dollars.
Project Wonderland is an accepted open technology platform for the Immersive Education Initiative and the Education Grid:
http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/pr/2008-06/sunflash.20080625.1.xml
Don't miss out and mark your calendars now to attend!
Posted at 02:20PM Feb 18, 2009 by kevinr in Immersion | Comments[0]