Narrative for the Air University 3D Metaverse presentation at OSCC 2015 by Dr. Andrew Stricker, Dr. Cynthia Calongne, Dr. Barbara Truman and Ms. Toni Scribner on Dec. 5, 2015 and Dr. Fil Arenas and Mr. Brad Aldridge. Features Squadron Officer College's grid designs, use of BulletSim physics for flight, the Alexa Echo for integrating the Internet of Things and game designs running on the Amazon AWS Lambda. Current research focuses on tailoring Alexa and building a virtual world grid on the Raspberry Pi2 with video and audio streams.

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What is a
Metaverse?
A Metaverse consists of
3D worlds offering
persistent immersive
and interactive spaces.
Educators can use a
Metaverse to support
engaging, meaningful,
and interactive activity
among learners with
each other, with
content, and with
instructors. Interactive
activity can take the
form of Single- and
Multiple-player
Education Role Playing
Games (SPERPGs and
MPERPGs) supporting
learning simulations.
Activities can also
include in-world
meetings supported by
voice, text, and a
variety of media (e.g.,
video, education
broadcasts) and virtual
technologies (e.g.,
surveys, quizzes,
Integrating Physical and Virtual
Learning Spaces
Micro-learning Sims Using IoT and Raspberry Pi

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What are
applications for IoT
with the AU
Metaverse?
The Internet-of-Things
(IoT) offers the means
to interconnect devices
across physical and
virtual learning spaces.
Advantages include
the means to support
ubiquitous use of
multiple devices
spanning physical
classroom spaces and
virtual environments
supporting learning
simulations. For
example, an instructor
can give verbal
commands within the
physical classroom for
rubric assessments,
reporting/summarizing
aggregate virtual sim
performance data in
support of learning
analytics and
classroom discussions.
Raspberry Pi offers the
means to pair and
package OS systems,
connected IoT devices
with virtual learning
sims.
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How does the
integrated physical
and virtual
environment work?
Interconnected IoT
devices can send and
receive data through
API gateways used to
relate devices with data
transmission, storage,
and retrieval. This
provides benefits for
sharing, aggregating,
and reporting learning
performance data
using a variety of
devices spanning
physical and virtual
spaces.
The Raspberry Pi offers
the means to
inexpensively support
packaged integrated
learning environments
uniquely suited for
particular learning
purposes and activities.
For example, micro SD
cards can contain the
entire set of OS,
software applications,
and device connection
protocols. Rapidly
switching between
packaged learning
applications is as
simple as switching out
the SD card on the
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Learning
Applications
Virtual learning
simulations can be
packaged for micro-
level applications (e.g.,
micro-courses)
whereby the expected
learning activity,
making use of the sim,
is designed to support
interactive model-
based reasoning (MBR)
learning.
MBR applications in
virtual environments
offers the means to
support interactivity
with 3D models for
learners to predict, act,
and observe actions.
Visibility of 2nd and
3rd-order effects from
actions are particularly
useful for helping
learners to develop
deeper levels of
understanding
between constructs
and representation in
models. This level of
understanding is
important to higher-
order critical thinking
skills and complex
problem solving.
Integrating Physical and Virtual
Learning Spaces
Micro-learning Sims Using IoT and Raspberry Pi