AUN-TEPL Symposium

Virtual Environment and Avatar Tools for

Online Learning

SYNOPSIS

Online classrooms have potential benefits distinct from traditional classrooms, but student engagement is hardly present in the meeting rooms. In this presentation, we will discuss how virtual environments and avatars can increase social presence in the online classroom. Then, we will discuss and categorize tools that instructors and students can take advantage of. Finally, we will see a few use cases and discuss feedback from instructors and students.

Thanapon has joined Mahidol University as an instructor at the Faculty of ICT and currently acts as an assistant dean of the academic development and courses. Before joining the Faculty of ICT, he received his Ph.D. in computer science from Northwestern University, USA. His research interests are machine learning and natural language processing. One of his research projects is to automatically provide personalized feedback for student practice.

Contact Information:

Faculty of Information and Communication Technology,

Mahidol University

Nakhon Pathom,

Thailand

Email: thanapon.nor@mahidol.edu

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