{"id":64497,"date":"2018-09-08T10:20:18","date_gmt":"2018-09-08T14:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=64497"},"modified":"2018-09-08T10:20:18","modified_gmt":"2018-09-08T14:20:18","slug":"why-one-london-university-is-now-offering-degrees-in-vr-forrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2018\/09\/08\/why-one-london-university-is-now-offering-degrees-in-vr-forrest\/","title":{"rendered":"Why one London university is now offering degrees in VR [Forrest]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.techrepublic.com\/google-amp\/article\/why-one-london-university-is-now-offering-degrees-in-vr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Why one London university is now offering degrees in VR<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from techrepublic.com by\u00a0Conner Forrest<br \/>\n<em>London College of Communication, UAL is launching a master&#8217;s degree in virtual reality for the 2018-19 academic year.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The big takeaways for tech leaders:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>London College of Communication, UAL is launching a Master of Arts in VR degree for the 2018-19 academic year.<\/li>\n<li>The demand for VR professionals is growing in the film and media industries, where these technologies are being used most frequently.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">From DSC:<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">Collaboration\/videoconferencing tools like Webex, Blackboard Collaborate, Zoom, Google Hangouts, Skype, etc. are being used in a variety of scenarios. That platform has been well established. It will be interesting to see how VR might play into web-based collaboration, training, and learning.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why one London university is now offering degrees in VR &#8212; from techrepublic.com by\u00a0Conner Forrest London College of Communication, UAL is launching a master&#8217;s degree in virtual reality for the 2018-19 academic year. The big takeaways for tech leaders: London College of Communication, UAL is launching a Master of Arts in VR degree for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[354,286,346,32,210,533,37,3,391,419,408,62,309,38,214,367,253,49,824],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-av-audiovisual","category-digital-learning","category-distance-education","category-education-technology","category-emerging-technologies","category-experimentation","category-future","category-higher-education","category-human-computer-interaction-hci","category-ideas-teaching","category-mediafilm","category-online-learning","category-platforms","category-uk","category-universities","category-vendors","category-virtual-reality-worlds-learning","category-web-based-collaboration","category-xr-extended-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64497"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64499,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64497\/revisions\/64499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}