Welcome to the archive website for Researching Learning in Immersive Virtual Environments 2011 (ReLIVE11). This site hosts the academic proceedings from the conference and links to external content such as Flickr and our archived webcasts.
Whilst immersive virtual worlds are providing us with platforms for innovation, and new opportunities to understand and address the needs of learners in the 21st century, we are under more pressure than ever not only to continue demonstrating innovation, but to do this at scale, for less money, whilst increasing efficiency and productivity. The challenge for us all is to contribute to a future where innovations meet these requirements whilst keeping learners, and learning, at the core of all that we do.
"Great couple of days – can't wait for the next one"
With a nod to recycling, therefore, ReLIVE11 revisited some of the themes of ReLIVE08 (www.open.ac.uk/relive08), but from the fresh perspective of using all that we have learned in between to explore how immersive virtual worlds can help us and our learners to find creative solutions for new futures.
(ReLIVE11 presenter)
With an opening keynote from Robin Wight, founder of The Ideas Foundation and a creative legend in advertising, ReLIVE11 challenged the community to think creatively and look for opportunities to collaborate and innovate. The invited panel speakers from within and without academia brought a stimulating range of interesting perspectives and expertise to our discussions, complementing a showcase of papers and workshops that reflect the best of current academic research.
Programme Highlights
- Day 0 - A virtual concert with live music in Second Life to launch the conference
- Day 1 - Opening keynote from Robin Wight, creative legend in advertising, to launch the conference theme of being creative in the virtual world within physical world constraints
- Day 1 - ReLIVE sees the formal launch of the Springer book series on Immersive Environments http://www.springer.com/series/10095
- Day 1 - Workshop linking us live with the IEEE VECoLab vPEARL summit in California http://standards.ieee.org/news/vpearl/index.html
- Day 1 - Invited workshop from The Science Circle http://sciencecircle.org/
- Multidisciplinary papers, presentations and workshops focusing on researching learning in immersive virtual environments
- Implementations papers strand supported by JISC CETIS http://jisc.cetis.ac.uk/
- Day 2 - Interactive keynote session from invited panel of cyber-celebrity speakers
- Day 2 - Closing keynote from IBM's Andy Piper, reflecting on the conference and looking ahead to technological futures