How do Distance Learning and Virtual Worlds transform Education?
How does the future of Education look like?
What elements could be part of the Future of Language Learning?
What is the role of Virtual Worlds in such a scenario?
What are the skillset, pedagogical methodologies and strategies that language teachers and institutions should adopt so as to co-shape the future and thrive?
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Total Language Training: How Virtual Worlds Will Define the Future of Language Learning
1. Total Language Training
How Virtual Worlds will define
the Future of Language Learning
Stylianos Mystakidis
SLanguages, September 28th, 2012
2. Stylianos Mystakidis
• E-learning Specialist
Library, University of Patras +
• Adjunct Faculty | Teaching Staff
> Open University of Catalonia
(Barcelona, Spain) @ WWW
> University of Washington (Seattle,
USA) @ Second Life
• Director of Immersive Worlds Service,
Learning Agency Network
34. “When a technology
becomes boring, that’s
when the social effects
become interesting”.
Clay Shirky, 2008
35. Your Avatar can help you
change yourself.
Blascovich & Bailenson, 2011
36. Virtual Worlds Sensibilities
The Sense of Self
The Death of Distance
The Power of Presence
The Sense of Space
The Capability to Co-Create
The Pervasiveness of Practice
The Enrichment of Experience
Kapp, O’Driscoll, 2010
54. Unstoppable
people & teams
identify a goal
that really
matters to them
personally-
They refuse to
give up until that
goal is achieved.
Miami Heat, NBA
Champions 2012