Awesome Research Path

1. Awesome Research Path Torsten Reiners, Lincoln C. Wood Lincoln C. Wood, TorstenReiners 2013-02-22 Perth, Australia

2. they divulge their secrets There is no doubt that both of them have lead a pretty busy and exciting past year which has proven extremely fruitful

3. Agenda • Ideas and inspiration in academic research and publishing What to do and how to do it • How to have fun and be productive • The grant process – writing, collaboration, and refinement. The relatively pain-free method. • Shepherding an idea from a single word to a (funded) 32-page OLT application (we are NOT waiting for a response to our 87p ARC Linkage grant application) • Learn about the focus of our OLT grant and research stream (it’s not just a grant or a couple of papers; discover what we’re doing and how it ‘fits together’) • How we’ve gone about putting together resources to maximise publishing opportunities • Learn the secrets of ‘pyramid publishing’ and the importance of balancing research output in terms of quality and quantity in the future of publishing in Western Universities. • An overview of “Synthetic Worlds” A book edited by X, Torsten Reiners, Y. Due for release in a couple of months. We’ll talk about the content and our perspectives on the future of virtual worlds.

6. Agenda • Ideas and inspiration in academic research and publishing What to do and how to do it • How to have fun and be productive • The grant process – writing, collaboration, and refinement. The relatively pain-free method. • Shepherding an idea from a single word to a (funded) 32-page OLT application (we are NOT waiting for a response to our 87p ARC Linkage grant application) • Learn about the focus of our OLT grant and research stream (it’s not just a grant or a couple of papers; discover what we’re doing and how it ‘fits together’) • How we’ve gone about putting together resources to maximise publishing opportunities Learn the secrets of ‘pyramid publishing’ and the importance of balancing research output in terms of quality and quantity in the future of publishing in Western Universities. • An overview of “Synthetic Worlds” A book edited by X, Torsten Reiners, Y. Due for release in a couple of months. We’ll talk about the content and our perspectives on the future of virtual worlds.

7. BE PRODUCTIVE !!!!!!!!! •  Keep up the good work

9. Passion FUN • PLAY

10. Agenda • Ideas and inspiration in academic research and publishing What to do and how to do it • How to have fun and be productive • The grant process – writing, collaboration, and refinement. The relatively pain-free method. • Shepherding an idea from a single word to a (funded) 32-page OLT application (we are NOT waiting for a response to our 87p ARC Linkage grant application) • Learn about the focus of our OLT grant and research stream (it’s not just a grant or a couple of papers; discover what we’re doing and how it ‘fits together’) • How we’ve gone about putting together resources to maximise publishing opportunities Learn the secrets of ‘pyramid publishing’ and the importance of balancing research output in terms of quality and quantity in the future of publishing in Western Universities. • An overview of “Synthetic Worlds” A book edited by X, Torsten Reiners, Y. Due for release in a couple of months. We’ll talk about the content and our perspectives on the future of virtual worlds.

12. Agenda • Ideas and inspiration in academic research and publishing What to do and how to do it • How to have fun and be productive • The grant process – writing, collaboration, and refinement. The relatively pain-free method. • Shepherding an idea from a single word to a (funded) 32-page OLT application (we are NOT waiting for a response to our 87p ARC Linkage grant application) • Learn about the focus of our OLT grant and research stream (it’s not just a grant or a couple of papers; discover what we’re doing and how it ‘fits together’) • How we’ve gone about putting together resources to maximise publishing opportunities • Learn the secrets of ‘pyramid publishing’ and the importance of balancing research output in terms of quality and quantity in the future of publishing in Western Universities. • An overview of “Synthetic Worlds” A book edited by X, Torsten Reiners, Y. Due for release in a couple of months. We’ll talk about the content and our perspectives on the future of virtual worlds.

14. Cider-fuelled Brainstorm

16. OLT First Try • Curtin University • Murdoch • TAMK • Technical University of Graz • University of New England • Feedback • The project is excellent in its conception, approach and outcomes. The student cohort may be small but the potential impact on skills supporting industry is enormous and a stronger application would discus this aspect further.  The use of authentic learning activities and assessment through role-play seems highly appropriate to this area. However, there are some concerns about whether the outcomes are value for money, in terms of leveraging existing resources and the return on investment with respect to the students it influences. The proposal would be strengthened by collaboration with industry and use of real software and with inclusion of a strategy for evaluating the effectiveness of the tool.  The team has a great track record, as individuals, institutions and collaborators, of delivering.

17. nDiVE OLT Grant 2013-2014 (AUD 220,000) n-Dimensional Immersive Virtual Environment • increase authenticity through inclusion of real-life complexity • use scenarios linked into a comprehensive supply chain • include gaming mechanisms to increase student engagement

18. ARC Linkage Grant Gamification to bridge the divide between education providers and industry using scenario-based simulation to promote skills development for safety Reiners, T., Wood, L. Gregory, S., Bastiaens, T. Rio Tinto, SKM, GS1 This project develops and trials immersive virtual environments as an innovative and authentic approach to skills training to improve occupational health and safety. We provide a nationally-available system suitable for improving workplace safety over a range of scenarios. Implementation of game-based approaches increase user engagement. The environment will be supplemented with full-training support, to allow stakeholders to design and implement engaging, stress-inducing scenarios that will develop learners’ capabilities under simulated pressure, in preparation to manage real and genuinely stressful situations.

19. Agenda • Ideas and inspiration in academic research and publishing What to do and how to do it • How to have fun and be productive • The grant process – writing, collaboration, and refinement. The relatively pain-free method. • Shepherding an idea from a single word to a (funded) 32-page OLT application (we are NOT waiting for a response to our 87p ARC Linkage grant application) • Learn about the focus of our OLT grant and research stream (it’s not just a grant or a couple of papers; discover what we’re doing and how it ‘fits together’) • How we’ve gone about putting together resources to maximise publishing opportunities • Learn the secrets of ‘pyramid publishing’ and the importance of balancing research output in terms of quality and quantity in the future of publishing in Western Universities. • An overview of “Synthetic Worlds” A book edited by X, Torsten Reiners, Y. Due for release in a couple of months. We’ll talk about the content and our perspectives on the future of virtual worlds.

20. RTFM

23. Demonstration Candy factory game

24. Port Simulator 2012 Gamification in logistics and supply chain education Screenshot here

25. nDiVE • Promote sustainable, comprehensive, and authentic learning, skill training, and transfer of tacit knowledge • Manifold dimensions • Not clean, ordered, and structured academic environment • Capture the real-world ‘messiness’ • Learn to Fail • Build on what we have • New components • E.g., gamification

26. Multiple Perspectives on one Scenario

29. Agenda • Ideas and inspiration in academic research and publishing What to do and how to do it • How to have fun and be productive • The grant process – writing, collaboration, and refinement. The relatively pain-free method. • Shepherding an idea from a single word to a (funded) 32-page OLT application (we are NOT waiting for a response to our 87p ARC Linkage grant application) • Learn about the focus of our OLT grant and research stream (it’s not just a grant or a couple of papers; discover what we’re doing and how it ‘fits together’) • How we’ve gone about putting together resources to maximise publishing opportunities • Learn the secrets of ‘pyramid publishing’ and the importance of balancing research output in terms of quality and quantity in the future of publishing in Western Universities. • An overview of “Synthetic Worlds” A book edited by X, Torsten Reiners, Y. Due for release in a couple of months. We’ll talk about the content and our perspectives on the future of virtual worlds.

30. Impact High Ranked Proposals Impact Low Ranked

31. Team Publications Hebbel-Seeger, A., Reiners, T., & Schäfer, D. (Eds.). (2013). Synthetic Worlds: Emerging Technologies in Education and Economics. Springer. Masters, Y., Gregory, S., Dalgarno, B., Campbell, M., Reiners, T., Dreher, H., Knox, V. (2013). VirtualPREX: Providing virtual professional experience for pre-service teachers. In S. Gregory, M. J. W. Lee, B. Dalgarno, & B. Tynan (Eds.), Virtual Worlds in Online and Distance Education. Athabasca University Press. Masters, Yvonne, Gregory, S., Reiners, T., Knox, V., & Dalgarno, B. (2013). VirtualPREX: Developing Teaching Skills in Second Life. In C. DeCoursey & S. Garrett (Eds.), Studies in Virtual World Learning and Practice. Oxford, UK: Inter-Disciplinary Press. Menzel, M., & Reiners, T. (2013). Customer Relationship Management System: A Case Study on Small- and Medium-sized Companies  in North Germany. In J. Devos (Ed.), Information Systems and Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs). Springer. Reiners, T., Dreher, C., & Dreher, H. (2013). Transforming Ideas to Innovations: A Methodology for 3D Systems Development. In A. Hebbel-Segger, T. Reiners, & D. Schäfer (Eds.), Synthetic Worlds: Emerging Technologies in Education and Economics. Information Systems. Springer. Reiners, T., Gregory, S., & Knox, V. (2013). Virtual Bots, their Influence on Learning Environments and How They Increase Immersion. In S. Gregory, M. J. W. Lee, B. Dalgarno, & B. Tynan (Eds.), Virtual Worlds in Open and Distance Education. Athabasca University Press. Reiners, T., & Wood, L. C. (2013). Game-based Elements to Upgrade Bots to Non-Player Characters in Support of Educators. In A. Hebbel-Segger, T. Reiners, & D. Schäfer (Eds.), Alternate Realities: Emerging Technologies in Education and Economics. Information Systems. Berlin: Springer. Reiners, Torsten, & Alexander, P. (2013). Social network perception alignment of e-recruiters and potential applicants. Presented at the HICSS. Reiners, Torsten, & Wood, L. C. (2013). Immersive Virtual Environments to facilitate authentic education in Logistics and Supply Chain Management. In Y. Kats (Ed.), Learning Management Systems and Instructional Design: Metrics, Standards, and Applications. IGI Global. Jeeva, A., Wood, L. C. (2012) Poverty alleviation through procurement policies: The role of government procurement policy in improving supplier diversity. In: Ordóñez de Pablos, P., Lovelle, J., Gayo, J., & Tennyson, R. (Eds.), E-Procurement Management for Successful Electronic Government Systems, Hershey, PA: IGI Global, pp. 14-28. Wood, L. C. (2012) Coopetition in supply chains: Structures to improve customer-orientation. In: Eyob, E. and Tetteh, E. G. (Eds.), Customer-oriented global supply chains: Concepts for effective management, Hershey, PA: IGI Global, pp. 76-93. Wood, L. C. (2012) Fruitful market mediation: Challenges in implementing supply chain coopetition. In: Garg, M. and Gupta, S. (Eds.), Cases on supply chain and distribution management: Issues and principles, Hershey, PA: IGI Global, pp. 80-96. Wood, L. C. (2012) Assessor efficiency and effectiveness using marking and feedback support systems. IADIS Internet Technologies and Society, Perth (Australia), November 28-30, 2012, pp. 237-242.

32. Team Publications Masters, Y., Gregory, S., Dalgarno, B., Reiners, T., & Knox, V. (2012). Branching Out through VirtualPREX: Enhancing Teaching in Second Life. In J. Paul, Y. Masters, & N. Tavares-Jones (Eds.), Utopia and a Garden Party: Experiential Learning in Virtual Worlds, At the Interface: Cutting Edge Research (pp. 57–69). Oxford, United Kingdom: Inter-Disciplinary Press. Reiners, T., Wood, L. C., Chang, V., Guetl, C., Herrington, J., Teräs, H., & Gregory, S. (2012). Operationalising Gamification in an Educational Authentic Environment. In P. Kommers, T. Issa, & P. Isaías (Eds.), IADIS International Conference on Internet Technologies & Society 2012 (pp. 93–100). Presented at the IADIS 2012, Perth, Australia. Wood, L. C., & Reiners, T. (2012). Gamification in Logistics and Supply Chain Education: Extending Active Learning. In P. Kommers, T. Issa, & P. Isaías (Eds.), IADIS International Conference on Internet Technologies & Society 2012 (pp. 101–108). Presented at the IADIS 2012, Perth, Australia. Reiners, T., Pahl, J., Maroszek, M., & Rettig, C. (2012). Integrated Aircraft Scheduling Problem: An Auto-Adapting Algorithm to Find Robust Aircraft Assignments for Large Flight Plans. In R. Sprague (Ed.), Proceedings of the 45th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS 2012) (pp. 1267–1276). IEEE digital library. Reiners, Torsten, Dost, B., & Monteiro, N. (2012). EinflussSozialerNetzwerke auf den Bewerbungsprozess. In A. Hebbel-Seeger & P. Riehm (Eds.), Kunde 2.0: WieUnternehmen  Social Media Nutzen (pp. 181–194). Berlin: Erich Schmidt Verlag. Hadi, S., Wood, L. C. (2012) Improving hotel performance through active supply chain risk management: A preliminary model, International Conference in Organizational Innovation, Surabaya (Indonesia), July 10-12, 2012, pp. 1850-1865. Wood, L. C., Reefke, H., Breidbach, C. F. (2012) A typology of service supply chain strategies – Pathways between agility and efficiency, 10th ANZAM Operations, Supply Chain and Services Management Symposium 2012, Melbourne (Australia), June 14-15, 2012. Venable, J. R., Aitken, A., Chang, V., Dreher, H., Issa T., von Konsky, B., Wood, L. (2012) Developing a research design for comparative evaluation of marking and feedback support systems, Teaching and Learning Forum 2012, Perth (Australia), February 2-3, 2012.

33. Publications (books, minitracks, EOI) • Reiners, T., Wood, L. C., Teräs, H., Gregory, S., Chang, V., Gütl, C., & Herrington, J. (2014). Skills Acquisition and Training Using Authentic Immersive Environments. Springer. • Reiners, T., & Wood, L. C. (Eds.). (2014). Gamification in Education and Business. Springer. • Proceedings of Workshop in Perth (2013). 1st International Workshop on “Skills Training in Education and Business using Authentic Immersive Environments” (STEB XXX 2013). LNCS anticipated • Minitrack • HICSS 2014: Skills Acquisition and Training • Expression of Interests • “Skills Employability Exploration: Management, Assessment, Matching, and Assurance” Torsten Reiners, Colin Armstrong, Vanessa Chang, Christian Guetl (TU Graz), Lincoln Wood (Auckland University of Technology) • “Piloting a Learner Centred Learning Approach with MOOCs” Vanessa Chang, Torsten Reiners, Christian Guetl (TU Graz), Theo Basiaens (Open University of the Netherland and Open University Hagen, Germany), Lincoln Wood (Auckland University of Technology) • “Development and Evaluation of Intelligent-Agent-Based Avatars for More Holistic and Realistic Case Studies in 3D Virtual Learning Environments” JohnVenable, Vanessa Chang, Torsten Reiners, Christian Guetl (TU Graz)

34. Agenda • Ideas and inspiration in academic research and publishing What to do and how to do it • How to have fun and be productive • The grant process – writing, collaboration, and refinement. The relatively pain-free method. • Shepherding an idea from a single word to a (funded) 32-page OLT application (we are NOT waiting for a response to our 87p ARC Linkage grant application) • Learn about the focus of our OLT grant and research stream (it’s not just a grant or a couple of papers; discover what we’re doing and how it ‘fits together’) • How we’ve gone about putting together resources to maximise publishing opportunities • Learn the secrets of ‘pyramid publishing’ and the importance of balancing research output in terms of quality and quantity in the future of publishing in Western Universities. • An overview of “Synthetic Worlds” A book edited by X, Torsten Reiners, Y. Due for release in a couple of months. We’ll talk about the content and our perspectives on the future of virtual worlds.

35. The story of Virtual Worlds Social Dimension in the Use of Virtual Worlds Collaboration Learning and Education Use-cases and Scenarios of Integration Development Issues and Implementation Benefits