TELL members showcase ongoing projects to a group of visitors as part of the activities of Show Me Mizzou Day last April 13th. Show Me Mizzou Day is a campuswide open house organized by the University of Missouri – Columbia and designed to give members of the community the opportunity to attend presentations, tour labs and see research in action.

Hands on activities were held in a virtual world created as part of the project “Virtual Interactive Online Orientation” where new students can visit the SISLT buildings virtually.

From left to right: Gayathri, Jesse, Hao and Dr. Xu

From left to right: Dr. Xu, Hao, Jesse, and Gayathri.

Charlie and Ben Adam play with their avatars in the 3D Virtual Learning Environment created by TELL

TELL members presented a roundtable session at SITE 2019 – The Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education conference held in Las Vegas, Nevada last March 18-22, 2019. The session was entitled “Pedagogical usability in the design of a learning module on VR“. A paper with the same title will be pusblished in the conference proceedings. The paper deals with the pedagogical usability dimensions we employed in the design of a learning module for an online eight-week course on Digital Media for undergraduate and graduate students at a Mid-west university, USA. The paper was authored by Minh Pham, Dr. Xinhao Xu, Jhon Bueno, and Hao He.

Figure 1. Dr. Xinhao (right) and Jhon Bueno (left) lead roudtable session at SITE 2019