Learning in Metaverses: Co-Exisitng in Real Virtuality - Hardcover

Schlemmer, Eliane; Backes, Luciana

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1466663510 ISBN 13: 9781466663510

Publisher: Information Science Reference, 2014

Synopsis

The potential of virtual world technologies to improve teaching and learning has been recognized in recent years, creating new possibilities for teaching and learning processes, with virtual environments impacting the achievement of student learning and collaboration.

Learning in Metaverses: Co-Existing in Real Virtuality discusses a better way to understand this new learning universe, exploring the possibilities of new social organization through the use of avatars in virtual worlds. Examining platforms such as Web 3D, metaverse, MDV3D, ECODI, hybrid living and sharing spaces, gamification, alternate reality, mingled reality, and augmented reality to evaluate the possibilities for their implementation in education, this reference book will be of use to academics, educators, students, researchers, gamers, and professionals.

About this title

About the Author:

Eliane Schlemmer / Violet Ladybird (avatar) is a Scholar in Productivity in Research from CNPq. She is a Doctor in Informatics and Education and Master in Psychology granted by the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul UFRGS. She graduated in Informatics from the Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos UNISINOS. She is currently a Researcher Professor in the Pos Graduation Program in Education at UNISINOS (ranked 7 by CAPES), in the Pedagogy Course and Digital Games Course. She is the leader of the Digital Education Research Group GPe-dU UNISINOS/CNPq, since its creation in 2004 and a member of the Committee Board of the Catholic Higher Education Institutions Network (Comitê Gestor da Rede de Instituições Católicas de Ensino Superior) - RICESU. She is a concept maker and developer of software and educational digital virtual environments, such as: Virtual Learning Environment AVA-UNISINOS, 3D 3D Digital Virtual WorldAWSINOS (Eduverse Metaverse), UNISINOS Island and RICESU Island (Second Life), Communicative Agent MARIÁ (developed together with the Pos Graduation Program in Applied Computing), and Virtual Learning Environment for mobile devices COMTEXT® (Competencies in Context developed in partnership with the Pos Graduation Program in Administration and with the Pos Graduation Program in Applied Computing). She is also a concept maker of the concept-technology Digital Virtual Space of Living and Sharing ECODI. The main areas she works in are research, development, teaching, advisement and consultancy in the Educational area: Digital Education, New modalities in Education (online Education and its derivations: e-learning, b-learning, m-learning, p-learning, u-learning), Virtual Learning Environments, Metaverses (Digital Virtual Worlds in 3 dimensions Immersive Learning), Gamification, Digital Virtual Communities of Learning, and Project Methodology. She has been working, since 1989, in the area with experience in Childrens Education, Elementary Education, High School, and Graduate Studies including Pos Graduation in the specialization levels masters and doctorate and in advisement and consultancy in capacitating. Several of her articles have been published in journals and events throughout Brazil and abroad, besides being the author of books and chapters in books published in Brazil, Latin America, United States and Europe. She is the author of the books, M-learning and U-learning: Novas Perspectivas da Aprendizagem Móvel e Ubíqua, edited by Pearson Prentice Hall, in 2011 and Comunidades de Aprendizagem e de Prática em Metaversos, edited by Cortez in 2012.

About this edition

• Publisher: Information Science Reference
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1466663510
• ISBN 13: 9781466663510
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 356