X3D and E-Learning

Goals: X3D and E-Learning

The Web3D Consortium and the IMS Consortium have partnered together to collaboratively harmonize and integrate Web3D and IMS standards for Web-Enabled 3D content, tools and platforms for e-learning.

Our proposal

• Explore and demonstrate best practices for integrating X3D Graphics models with e-learning content.

• Create demonstration examples showing how X3D model display, animation and user interaction can all augment the learning effectiveness of online textbooks.

• Show how X3D can serve as the common archival publishing format for a wide variety of diverse 3D graphics technologies.

• Document these lessons learned for repeatable use by partnered consortium members and the educational community.

• Formalize this effort and start a Working Group to implement these requirements to the respective standards specifications.

Technical Tasks

We are working on the following tasks.

Work Support

• Maintain this X3D and E-Learning wiki page to track issues and progress
• Identify people in IMS Consortium who want to collaborate with us on these issues
• Report on efforts regularly to x3d-public@web3d.org mailing list and in our every-other-week X3D working group teleconferences
• Discussions to occur on the x3d-public@web3d.org mailing list and public-html@w3.org mailing list
• Other tasks and efforts as needed

Participation

Relevant X3D and IMS information:

• HTML Working Group especially Membership and Participation
• World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
• W3C Process Document

The following individuals have volunteered to serve as X3D Working Group representatives in the X3D E-Learning Special Interest Group.

• Don Brutzman, Naval Postgraduate School (Web3D-W3C liaison and W3C Advisory Committee representative), Monterey California USA