Euroversity Association 1st Annual General Meeting 2014

Please make sure you have joined the Network to receive an invitation to the first General Meeting.

The Euroversity Network is in its final stages. Considering its success and the positive answer to its activities in all the involved countries, the consortium decided to carry on with its activities under the umbrella of the EUROVERSITY Association.

The main objective of the Association is to formally bring together professionals from various disciplines related to the fields of education, specifically education provided through virtual worlds, in order that they may explore ideas and pool resources, experience and energies for the future of education.

The Euroversity Association will implement the following activities:

• offer courses in virtual spaces;
• develop and submit new project proposals financed by the European Commission;
• carry out negotiations and summons activities in the process of the formation of consortia of organizations that participate in proposals for multi partner and / or cross border cooperation activities;
• enhance the participation to existing networks and the foundation of new ones in the field of virtual world education;
• offer project management, research, publishing and design work to organizations that are involved virtual worlds education;

The association is open to whoever might be interested in its activities by registering online. The first year of membership is free with no obligation to continue beyond the first year.

Registration as a member of the Association can be made via the button below and the accession of a new member to the Association is made public with the other members of the Association.

All requests to join the Association require the submission of a full profile of the prospective member and each membership will be approved by the majority of the Board of Administration of the Association.

Coming talks at the WEBinar series for EUROVERSITY

Date and time: Friday 31/1 at 12.00 CET (see the link to the recording below)

Adobe Connect room: https://connect.sunet.se/euroversityproject/

Title: Using the Euroversity Framework to Design a Short Course on Game Design in Virtual Worlds

by Dr. Darren Mundy

The Euroversity (http://www.euroversity.eu) Framework is a tool designed to support the design, development and delivery of courses in Virtual World environments. This seminar will talk through a short course delivered using the framework to support its construction. The course provided an opportunity for students to think carefully about how virtual world environments could be manipulated for design purposes, in this case through the medium of games design. Challenges encountered included thinking critically about how to encourage students in creative exploration and development within the selected environment of Second Life; understanding of the tools needed to create collaboratively in team based activities; dealing with the foibles of particular environments; and developing resilience to the issues presented when working in virtual world spaces.

Dr. Darren Mundy is a Senior Lecturer in Digital Media, Interim Head of the School of Arts and New Media and Associate Principal for the Scarborough Campus of the University of Hull. He has a PhD (2004) and First Class honours degree (2000) from the University of Salford and he is currently involved as a CI in the EU LLP funded Euroversity project. His research interests centre around Information Security, eGovernment communication and the application of Educational Technologies to support pedagogic enhancement.

Here is the link to the Webinar recording: https://connect.sunet.se/p44vmirf181/