Cross-disciplinary collaboration platformusing MMORPG technology – Virtualmuseum of Art and modern history.
MMORPG技術を利用した学際的協働プラットフォームの構築例～バーチャル美術史・近代史博物館
28 Oct, 2016
(Rev. on 5 Oct, 2016)
Hajime Nishimura, Sui Morita, Jun Takamoto
西村 一、森田 彗、高本 淳

What is MMORPG?
“Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game”

Virtual World, VW（仮想空間）- Second Life by Linden Lab- OpenSimulator (open source)by Tokyo University of Information Technology- Mind Craft

Contents
1. Why does collaboration learning needs VW?
2. Cross-disciplinary portal of VW learningresources
3. Collaboration learning platform, Moodle andConstructivism
4. Cross-disciplinary movement, STEAM andVisualization
5. Example: Museum of Art and Modern History
6. Strategy of cross-disciplinary collaboration(platform for open science)1. Why does collaboration learning needs VW?
(1/2)
Example Movie: https://youtu.be/bemoDmWJqlU
Unique benefits of Virtual World Education• Interactive presentation and discussion with participants
remotely• Visualize contents and curate contexts in 3D space• Multi-sensing immersive experiences.
• Discovery learning by collaboration• Social skill challenge• Special training and experiment• Person to person counseling remotely.

Suitable not for systematic knowledge transfer
but for experiential learning by collaboration.

1. Why does collaboration learning needs VW?
(2/2)
Major collaborators and patrons*•Greg Perrier, Northern Virginia Community College, USA•Natalie Nussli, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern
Switzerland•Arcadia Ashylum (avatar name), USA•Draceina Pinion (avatar name), Japan•Dugong Janus (avatar name), Japan•Sweecahcahche Ah (avatar name), UK•Sui Morita, The Modern Museum, Japan•Jun Takamoto, Abyss Observatory and The Modern Museum, Japan•Kichizaburo Hirota, Japan Society for Archaeological Information•Kenneth T.Y. Lim*, National Institute of Education, Singapore•Phillip Youngblood*, University of the Incarnate Word, USA•Chantal Snoek*, The Science Circle, Netherlands•Fumikazu Iseki*, Tokyo University of Information Technology•Jabara Janing* (avatar name), Jabara Land Estate, Japan

2. Cross-disciplinary portal of VW
learning resources

Example Movie: https://youtu.be/DgoBBMHxZE4

2. Cross-disciplinary portal of VW learning resources

Academic Discipline (Wikipedia)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline_of_academic_disciplines• Humanities: History, Languages, Literature, Philosophy,Professions (Arts, Religions, Architecture, etc.)• Social sciences: Economics, Geography, Psychology,Sociology, etc. Professions (Archaeology, Education, Law, Libraryand information science, etc.)• Natural sciences: Biology, Chemistry, Earth sciences,Physics, Space sciences, Professions (Agriculture, Engineering,Environmental studies, Medicine and health, etc.)• Formal sciences: Logic, Pure mathematics, Professions(Applied mathematics, Computer science, Systems science)• Applied Sciences• Inter-disciplinary Sciences

3. Collaboration learning platform,Moodle and Constructivism
In distance education, we need non-real-timecommunication platform to help real-time VW education.

Moodle: Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment
ftp://isis.faces.ula.ve/Educ_Distancia/Moodle/Moodle_MartinDougiamas.pdf•Free and open-Source software for Learning Management System•Originated by Martin Dougiamas, et al, released in 2002

3. Collaboration learning platform,
Moodle and Constructivism
Constructivism•Jean Piaget (1896-1980)•People construct their own understanding and knowledge of the world,
through experiencing things and reflecting on those experiences (, notthrough copying existing knowledge).

Moodle supports for constructivism;- Distribution of learning materials, test and questionnaire- Presentation by students, Discussion between students- Project management by students- Construction of knowledge portal and community portal

4. Cross-disciplinary movement,STEAM and Visualization(1/3)
STEM: Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics
STEAM: Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Mathematics

4. Cross-disciplinary movement,
STEAM and Visualization(2/3)
Yakman’s papers
1) Georgette Yakman∙Lee, Hyonyong, Exploring the Exemplary STEAM Education inthe U.S. as a Practical Educational Framework for Korea, J Korea Assoc. Sci. Edu,Vol. 32, No. 6, pp. 1072-1086(2012. 8)2) Georgette Yakman, What is the point of STE@M? – A Brief Overview. (2010)https://www.academia.edu/8113832/What_is_the_Point_of_STEAM_A_Brief_Overview_of_STEA
M_Education

3) Georgette ‘george’ Yakman, STΣ@M Education: an overview of creating a modelof integrative education. (2008)https://www.academia.edu/8113795/STEAM_Education_an_overview_of_creating_a_model_of_int
egrative_education

4. Cross-disciplinary movement,
STEAM and Visualization(3/3)
Key points of Yakman’s papers (next sheet)•STEAM is a way to teach how all things relate to each other, in school
and in life. It’s more fun than traditional learning styles and makes
more sense to all types of learners because it is based on the naturalways that people learn and are interested in things.
• Develop deeper understanding of content, process, and characteristics ofscience through ‘Creative Design’ and ‘Emotional Learning’.
•Students need a literacy of a breadth of the primary disciplines which would
include an ability to transfer knowledge with higher order thinking between
disciplines, or to use my term, students need to obtain a functional literacy.
•“the easier it is to engage other subjects, due to factors like commonlanguage, the easier it is for students to realize how to apply knowledge fromone curriculum to another.” (Huber & Morrale, 2002, p. 2).

Question•Is Art only an assistant roll for learning science? (Visualization of Idea)

5. Example: Museum of Art andModern History (1/3)
Example Movie: https://youtu.be/7rNqlMh1ON4

Curated by Hajime Nishimura and Sui Morita
At “STEM Island” of University of the Incarnate Word, USA

5. Example: Museum of Art and ModernHistory (2/3)•Collaboration platform for finding cross-disciplinary relations
between Paintings, Architecture, Literature, Music, Inventionof Science & Technology, Social events, etc. in modernhistory.
•Arrange panels of major Art works and events in 3D space.
Altitude of panels are corresponding with their publishedyears.
•Motivation: Finding synchronicity of birthday of Einstein(1879-1955), Picasso (1881-1973) and Stravinsky (18821971) who are initiators of strange physics, paintings andmusic.

5. Example: Museum of Art and ModernHistory (3/3)
Example Movie: https://youtu.be/s5EFL-V52AwJun Takamoto developed above idea and introduced second
axis in addition with altitude/ year axis.
•Second axis shows;- “Renaissance and Classicism” vs. “Mannerism and Baroque” (by HeinrichWölfflin and Gustav René Hocke)- “Geometric, planar, static and less-diversified Art” vs. “Non-geometric,Stereoscopic, dynamic and diversified Art ”- “Agricultural culture” ” vs. “Hunting culture”- “Logical Art” vs. “Emotional Art”

- “Symbolic/ deformed (Feature extraction)” vs. “Photo realistic”- “Sophisticated expression” vs. “Excessive expression”

6. Strategy of cross-disciplinary collaboration(platform for open science)
Each discipline side;•Release data and achievements in common language(including visualization).
•Structuralize achievements based on each community’s
discipline

Data portal side;•Develop data portal as a collaboration platform which data
are structuralized and documented in common language.
•Provide the platform for developing new-discipline throughcross-disciplinary collaboration

Thank you!