UBC Virtual Commons for Education and Research (VCER) Dr. Sandrine Han’s research project funded by the UBC Faculty of Education in 2012.
VCER is a virtual environment for educational use only.
This environment invites educators from K-12 to higher education to participate.
VCER initially includes four regions.
These five regions are: Orientation Island, Virtual Campus, K-12 Happy Land, Experiment Island, and Residential Villa.
Orientation Island is a place for users to learn how to get around and to know the places in VCER .
Virtual Classrooms is the region for graduate and undergraduate courses which use the VCER for teaching and learning.
K-12 Happy Land is the region for teachers with K-12 students. Here is also consider to host a Virtual Room 13 Project.
Experiment Island is a place for educators, teachers, and students to experiment, collaborate, and research*.
Residential Villa is a place for all users to apply^ and use as their virtual home.
*UBC VCER is open to all educators to do research in this virtual space. All applicable policies related to conducting human research also apply in UBC-VCER, including receiving IRB/REB approval.
^Please contact with Sandrine Han for detail information.
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