Virtual World as a Resource for Hybrid Education

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https://doi.org/10.3991/ijet.v15i15.13025

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Avatar, Digital tools, Emerging technologies, Metaverse, Moodle, Opensimulator, Singularity.

Abstract


The virtual worlds in the educational environment, have opened new possibilities to innovation in the teaching-learning process, where the flexibility of access to information inside or outside the classroom through an avatar, tends to a paradigm shift in education traditional, in terms of the way of transmitting and acquiring knowledge through technological means. In this sense, an investigation was carried out on the design, development and use of a metaverse as a digital tool of didactic support to students of the Faculty of Systems Engineering of the University of Cundinamarca, with a view to establishing its viability to be implemented in a course of mathematics and demonstrate the possibilities offered by this type of resource to motivate the student in his training. The metaverse design included various ICT tools, thereby promoting self-learning and collaborative learning. Finally, it was evaluated what was the appreciation of a group of students against their interaction with the metaverse, which validated its usefulness and functionality inside and outside the classroom.

Author Biographies

Jairo Eduardo Márquez Díaz, Universidad de Cundinamarca

PhD in Education from the University of Baja California (UBC - Mexico), Master in Business Information Security, University of Barcelona (Spain), Master in Bioethics, Universidad El Bosque (Colombia), currently a research professor at the University of Cundinamarca, Professor of the New Granada Military University. Director of research groups Nanoengineering and Scientific Academic Research Activity (S@R@).

Camilo Andrés Domínguez Saldaña, Universidad de Cundinamarca

Systems Engineer from the University of Cundinamarca (UDEC), specialist in creation of virtual worlds, educational content platforms, installation of computer equipment, preventive and corrective maintenance, he is currently a young researcher of the Nanoengineering research group, Process Coordinator.

Camilo Alberto Rodríguez Ávila, Universidad de Cundinamarca

Systems Engineer from the University of Cundinamarca (UDEC), specialist in creation of virtual worlds, educational content platforms, Bootstrap and NodeJs, he is currently a young researcher in the Scientific Academic Research Activity (S @ R @) research group, Process Coordinator.

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Published

2020-08-14

How to Cite

Díaz, J. E. M., Saldaña, C. A. D., & Ávila, C. A. R. (2020). Virtual World as a Resource for Hybrid Education. International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET), 15(15), pp. 94–109. https://doi.org/10.3991/ijet.v15i15.13025

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