Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education is a peer-reviewed community event focusing on education in immersive virtual environments. This open conference is organized by educators, for educators, to provide an opportunity to showcase the learning that takes place in this community of practice.

Over 3,300 people from 45 countries attended our last conference in April 2014. There were 80+ presentations in three days including keynote addresses by Ebbe Altberg, CEO of Linden Lab and Philip Rosedale, Second Life creator and CEO of High Fidelity.

This year VWBPE will be holding the conference in multiple virtual world locations for the 3rd year in a row. While Second Life’s virtual environment will still be hosting the main venues, other locations may include OpenSim and other “non-traditional” virtual world environments which are capable of supporting presentations, discussion forums, demonstrations, and hands-on workshops.

Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education is a meaningful way for presenters to share their research and experience about the rich learning systems in virtual worlds and games. This free online conference is produced entirely by volunteers. Conference proceedings are published as the Journal of Virtual Studies by Rockcliffe University Consortium.

In just the past several years, over 60 hours of video footage has been captured and has been made available free to the academic community in addition to other video broadcasts, with thousands of views.

Join us and be a part of this amazing one-of-a-kind conference!

FOR THIS YEAR'S CONFERENCE
YOU MUST PRE-REGISTER FOR THE OPENSIM COMPONENT.

Seating is limited if you do not have an OpenSim account with HyperGrid access. An explanation of hypergrid and how it works can be found at http://www.hyperica.com/how-to-travel/. If you need an account to be set-up for you we are limiting the new of new account set-ups to 150 and you MUST pre-register before February 28th, 2015 for these accounts. The accounts will be temporary and only available for the month of March. All content from OpenSim will be streamed Live. If we have sold out you can still watch and participate in the conference remotely by going to our Watch Live page at http://vwbpe.org/watch