3D Worlds for Edutainment: Educational, Relational and Organizational Principles

Blas, Nicoletta Di; Puppa, Paolo; Poggi, Caterina

doi:10.1109/percomw.2005.1

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“…Certainly, the focus is to distinguish the characteristics and qualities of the animation as a medium for disseminating information. Developing high-value content that advances educational strategy and tactics presents two key aspects (Di Blas et al, 2005). The first aspect is to determine the content that provides the greatest value.…”

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Mobile game-based learning with local content and appealing characters

Shiratuddin

Zaibon

2010

IJMLO

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In tapping the thriving mobile business, a study on mobile content development, specifically local ones is urgently required. Highly wanted local contents development is indeed for education, entertainment and games. Thus, we develop a mobile game-based learning (mGBL) about local content, called MaCMoG. It was technically tested for its functionality, compliance, compatibility and soaking. Furthermore, to assess the insights of potential players, informal interviews and observations were conducted. In addition to that, the local game characters and the game plan developed for the mGame were tested for their appealing merit. Overall, responses were remarkably consistent. Participants overwhelmingly considered MaCMoG as interesting and really attractive, successful in delivering the intended learning content, easy to play and simple to use. Findings also stressed two important points (1) local, appealing and well-developed characters are important elements to ensure better learning experience and (2) local uniqueness must always be incorporated to ensure better learning motivation and increase mGBL acceptance.

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“…The second aspect is to determine in what manner to produce the content. Certainly, the highest-value content is that which directly impacts targeted audience (Di Blas et al, 2005), which in our case local content about Malaysian. Consequently, the content for the game was focused on instilling Malay culture and values.…”

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Mobile game-based learning with local content and appealing characters

Shiratuddin

Zaibon

2010

IJMLO

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“…We have explored the role of place in virtual learning environments [4] and have studied designers collaborating in 3D virtual worlds [5]. Recently educational research has identified that studies into the use of immersive 3D virtual worlds for education can afford learners with opportunities for experiential and situated learning within a collaborative learning environment [6,7]. They have shown that 3D virtual environments can lend themselves to supporting a constructivist approach to learning.…”

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“…Studies into constructivist 3D learning environments by Di Blas et al, [6] have studied the pedagogical, technical and organizational issues. These studies show that a sense of place is an integral element in the structure of a 3D virtual world.…”

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Collaborative Learning in a 3d Virtual Place: Investigating the Role of Place in a Virtual Learning Environment

Clark¹,

Maher²

2006

Advanced Technology for Learning

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This paper reports on an exploratory study of the role of place and evidence of its effect on the activities, discourse and learning of design students in a 3D virtual learning environment that encourages collaboration and constructivism. Using an immersive 3D Virtual World based on Active Worlds, we created a virtual learning place for students' enrolled in a Website Design course. The virtual learning place consists of two distinct areas: a classroom-like place surrounded by student galleries. Students can navigate and communicate (synchronous chat) within the environment in the form of an avatar (virtual person). We recorded the conversations and activities of the students in discussions held in the virtual learning place and applied a communication coding scheme to analyse their discussions. In this paper we show how we identified the characteristics of place and specifically how it provides a context for identity and presence for supporting collaborative and constructivist student-centred learning.

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“…Pellettieri [28] has discussed the importance of goal-based activity design and synchronous network-based communication (NBC) in a collaborative virtual environment. Experiential and situated learning within a collaborative learning environment [29,30] has also been a focus for studied in 3D virtual environments.…”

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Collaborative virtual environment to study aircraft evacuation for training and education

Sharma

Otunba

2012

2012 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS)

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Numerous studies have explored the process of learning and its effectiveness in training and education. Collaborative virtual environment for studying aircraft evacuations in virtual reality environment can be used as an education and training tool. We believe that people learn best through real life experiences and that a sense of presence is developed in a virtual environment that can provide real world knowledge and experience. Our proposed multiuser environment consists of aircrafts, an airport, runways, and a control tower. Virtual reality experiments with virtual evacuation drills are necessary to study human behavior under panic or stressful situations that cannot be evaluated in the real world. The use of collaborative virtual environments to run virtual evacuation drills for an emergency evacuation eliminates risk of injury to participants and allows for the testing of scenarios that could not be tested in real life due to legal issues and possible health risks to participants. Our contribution lies in our approach to combine computer simulated agents and user controlled autonomous agents in a collaborative virtual environment to perform virtual evacuation drills. Results from this study can be used to measure the effectiveness of current procedures, protocols, and the effectiveness of training for airline and security personals.

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3D Worlds for Edutainment: Educational, Relational and Organizational Principles

Cited by 11 publications

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Mobile game-based learning with local content and appealing characters

Mobile game-based learning with local content and appealing characters

Collaborative Learning in a 3d Virtual Place: Investigating the Role of Place in a Virtual Learning Environment

Collaborative virtual environment to study aircraft evacuation for training and education

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