{"id":406,"date":"2024-01-31T11:13:11","date_gmt":"2024-01-31T11:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/davidrose\/?p=406"},"modified":"2024-02-08T11:35:35","modified_gmt":"2024-02-08T11:35:35","slug":"to-get-started-hologram-teachers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/davidrose\/2024\/01\/31\/to-get-started-hologram-teachers\/","title":{"rendered":"To get started… Hologram teachers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

So, to get started, I have chosen something I chanced upon in a newspaper. A UK university is celebrating the fact that they are going to be using holograms for lecturers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Hologram lecturers thrill <\/a>students<\/a> at trailblazing UK university<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, years ago I used to show videos of lectures (on VHS no less) to adult learners in the evenings who were doing part time degrees. The reasoning was simple: to widen participation to students who are unable to attend lectures because of other commitments. Universities themselves see a way to enlarge class sizes, after all, there is no physical restriction on how many students attend a lecture when it is hosted online.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, it is commonplace for all lectures to be recorded, for lectures to be uploaded on YouTube, for sites like this to exist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But is this (and Meta headsets linked to some sort of Second Life<\/a>) something different? The questions we need to ask are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. are we “dazzled” by new technology when not much has changed? Is this new technology just a move from cinema to IMAX rather than from the novel to cinema? How would you assess the difference between such changes?<\/li>
  2. do we need to be “present” to others to learn? Is there any reason to be embodied? Does being 3D replicate embodiness better than a 2D recorded lecture? <\/li>
  3. Can we just have lectures in a virtual shared space like characters in a game?What about NPCs in the classroom?<\/li>
  4. Should Einstein present lectures on physics and Monroe star in new films? What would the academic equivalent be?<\/li>
  5. what about sincerity, trust? The article ends with “The technology\u2019s AI capabilities mean an avatar can be created resembling anyone in the world, he added, though he noted that this might entail legal complications.” What are these legal issues?<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    There are many concepts that are changing here. Our idea of space and distance. Our idea of time and routines, presence, absence, but most importantly how we understand ourselves. As students, we understand ourselves as participants in lectures, “being at” a university, all this is changing. As a lecturer I understand myself as doing, not as performing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    All I want are your thoughts below. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Concepts: trust, being-with, space, embodied, virtual, actual.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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