Presenting at the forthcoming C2ISTAR Learning Conference sponsored by the Defence Science & Technology Laboratory (DSTL)

Myself and a colleague, Just Harris, will be presenting a white paper on learning innovation within the Contemporary Operating Environment at a forthcoming learning conference in March at Qinetiq’s Farnborough site.

Other presentations will be made by Qinetiq as well as Newmann and Spurr (NSC). NSC are currently the company providing the JCOVE simulation service for both pre-deployment and in-theatre learning.

Our paper will discuss a number of streams:

• Communities of Practice for enhanced knowledge retention
• Collaborative Virtual Worlds and their use within the military arena
• Inexpensive off the shelf serious games for improving strategy/influencing skills
• The future of semi-autonomous characters within tailored made simulations, such as VBS2.

Following presentations their will be lunch and a live online demonstration of the use of a virtual world for collaborative learning.

The demonstration will be using VastPark technologies, for a video example of their work, go to this link: http://vimeo.com/49000257