VWBPE 2023: Uncommon Realities

March 23-25, 2023

VWBPE will be streaming live from YouTube during the conference. All times are Pacific Daylight (UTC-8/Los Angeles USA).

Raw video footage will be available for 2 weeks after the conference and then replaced with post-production footage.

Video and Streaming provided courtesy of MetaWorld Broadcasting, and our Sponsors.

Thursday :: 23 March 2023

Time

Title

Video

8:00 AM

Opening Ceremony

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9:00 AM

Keynote :: Tom Boellstorff

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10:00 AM

A proposal for a design of a didactic model based on the metaverse from an inclusive teaching perspective

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10:00 AM

Uncommon history – The Virtual Pioneers

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11:00 AM

Uncommon insightful thinking from immersive gaming

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11:00 AM

What’s So Fascinating about Chinese Art in the Virtual World Second Life?

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12:00 PM

What’s up at the Lab?

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1:00 PM

Liberate agency amplification via avatar identity

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3:00 PM

Who else wants to improve teaching in virtual worlds?

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4:00 PM

The metaverse is where you are: Exercises for reaching the misinformed

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Friday :: 24 March 2023

Time

Title

Video

8:00 AM

Keynote :: Stylianos Mystakidis

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9:00 AM

Metaverse cybergogy: Making virtual school work for Indonesia

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11:00 AM

AI-Generated art for language learning

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11:00 AM

Futures of higher education in the climate crisis

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12:00 PM

Keynote :: Alexandra Humphreys

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2:00 PM

Symbolic Modeling (SymMod) tools

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2:30 PM

AI workflows: AI art and writing

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1:00 PM

The Butterfly Eyeffect & Transformative Realities

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4:00 PM

A decade of gamified learning

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4:00 PM

Grammar cops explore metaverse libraries

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Saturday :: 25 March 2023

Time

Title

Video

8:00 AM

International student project in the metaverse: Student perspectives

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8:00 AM

Metaverse libraries: A real music library for avatars

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9:00 AM

Unboxing the metaverse in education

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11:00 AM

Define your difference with your lodestar compass

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12:00 PM

I’m not playing with you: Real bodies in virtual worlds

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2:00 PM

Virtual worlds as a tool for overcoming perfectionism

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3:00 PM

Catching up with the Thinkerers :: Valerie Hill / Valibrarian (2018)

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4:00 PM

Composing in the hybrid metaverse

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4:00 PM

Perspective and place in virtual spaces

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6:00 PM

VWBPE Closing Ceremony

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