Vernetzung von Hochschule und Arbeitswelt Virtualle 3D Welten für Unternehmensgründer

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1 Vernetzung von Hochschule und Arbeitswelt Virtualle 3D Welten für Unternehmensgründer Institute for Information Systems and Computer Media (IICM) Faculty of Informatics Graz University of Technology, Austria Christian Gütl, Johanna Pirker Version September 18 th, 2011

2 Graz University of Technology Graz 2

3 Advanced Educational Media Technologies Group Remote & Collaborative Learning Adaptive e-learning systems Virtual learning environments E-Assessment Computer-based assessment Peer assessment Virtual Environments & Setups Virtual 3D World Infrastructure End devices (immersive mobile) Multimedia IR and NLP Access to learning repositories Pre-processing of content 3

4 Agenda Background & Motivation Requirements & Solution Evaluation & Results Current & Future Work 4

5 Introduction Cross Border Virtual Incubation University-Enterprise Cooperation research project, within ERASMUS program line under the lifelong learning programme Research and experiments of social and learnercentric entrepreneurship environments for the acceleration of new starters and cross border knowledge exchange Running until 2012, 17 Partners, 12 countries 6 pilots 5

6 Motivation & Objectives Getting ideas flying is challenging Successfully starting up an own business depends on a lot of aspects Knowledge and competences (subject domain, marketing, finance, legal aspects, ) Social Contacts and expert & stakeholders advices Resources (infrastructure, capital, ) Business Incubator (BI) is an institution to support young entrepreneurs providing services to fulfill these requirements are mainly local constricted, young entrepreneurs must be physically present [A. Bøllingtof, J. P. Ulhø, 2005] [L. Peters, M. Rice and M. Sundarajan, 2004] 6

7 Basic Knowledge Expert Knowledge Key competences Experts Partnerts Customers Investors Capital Infrastructure Requirements Requirements of Start-up Entrepreneurs Knowledge & Skills Social Contacts Resources 7

8 Conventional E-Education Tools Knowledge and social interaction can be covered by conventional E-Education and other ICT tools Drawbacks Lack of multiple communication channels Lack of immersion Feeling of isolation Insufficient performance and drop-out rates Difficulties related to self-regulation [Guetl, 2011] Face-to-face meetings, seminars and trainings cannot be avoided to provide adequate and effective support 8

9 Virtual 3D Worlds (1) Multiple communication channels - improve social awareness & knowledge transfer Presence (feeling to be part of the environment) - effect suspension of disbelief, - increase motivation & productivity Awareness of other avatars and the environment - impact the dynamic of group communication Reducing barriers - improve interaction btw. students & instructors Belonging to a community creates virtual social space, impact learning Facilitating collaboration on 3D artifacts or other content (Gütl, 2011) 9

10 Basic Knowledge Expert Knowledge Key competences Experts Partnerts Customers Investors Capital Infrastructue Virtual 3D Worlds (2) Requirements of Start-up Entrepreneurs Knowledge & Skills Social Contacts Resources 10

11 Virtual Incubator World (1) University Industry Business Courses, Seminars Knowledge Expert Knowledge, Advices Social Contacts Partners, Experts Investors, Partners, Experts 11

12 Virtual Incubator World (2) 12

13 Evaluation and Results (1) Qualitative Study Evaluation of the Virtual Incubator World Identification and specification of the requirements, evaluation of the VIW s support of these requirements, additional suggestions for improvements 3 business incubators 5 students 2 investors 4 cognitive science experts Rating of the importance Rating of the VIW s support 13

14 Evaluation and Results (2) What did you like in the VIW? Information exchange Presentation in real time Collaboration Tools Brainstorming, Share ideas Idea Interactivity Collaboration Many possibilities, self-direction Easy usage Future potential Open space for ad-hoc meetings What didn t you like? Graphics Too much overhead for purpose File sharing User Interface, Ease of use Technical Performance Too much information No personal area No use of 3D aspects Training necessary What are your suggestions for improvement? User interface, ease of use Graphics, Colors Missing privacy More features Visualization of data 14

15 Conclusion & Future Work Acceptance issues: Make the whole thing a bit funny, so that people also like to use it. Technical issues: On the one hand users ask for improved graphics, on the other hand complain about the system requirements. Security issues: They suspect stealing of presented ideas and feel unconformable sharing business plans. Peer activities Game-based approach Private Space 3D Virtualization Focus on advantages in comparision to contentional E-learning tools Tutorial sessions in the beginning Awareness of content creation 9/27/ Christian Gütl, Johanna Pirker 15

16 References A. Bøllingtof, J. P. Ulhø, The networked business incubator leveraging entrepreneurial agency?, Journal of Business Venturing 20, pp , V. Chang, C. Guetl, S. Kopeinik and R. Williams, Evaluation of Collaborative Learning Settings in 3D Virtual Worlds, International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning, Vol 4, C. Guetl, The Support of Virtual 3D Worlds for Enhancing Collaboration in Learning Settings, Techniques for Fostering Collaboration in Online Learning Communities Theoretical and Practical Perspectives, pp , A. Herrero de Egaña Espinosa de los Monteros, K.J. Van-Dorp, A. Muñoz Cabanes, C. Guetl, J. Pirker, Innovating Entrepreneurship Courses: Exploring new socio-instructional formats and business evaluation/assesment methods, EDULEARN11 Proceedings, pp , 2011 J. Kaplan, N. Yankelovich, Open Wonderland: Extensible Virtual World Architecture, IEEE Issue: 99, (accepted) Open Wonderland Foundation: Open Wonderland Documentation Wiki. Last retrieved April 28 th 2011 from L. Peters, M. Rice and M. Sundarajan, The Role of Incubators in the Entrepreneurial Process, Journal of Technology Transfer 29, pp ,

17 Questions & Contact Information Thank you for your Attention! Questions are welcome! Further Information: Christian Gütl, Johanna Pirker 17