Exploiting 3D virtual environments for supporting role playing games

Author

Deligiannakou, A. ; Papavasileiou, A. ; Polymeraki, E. ; Volioti, Christina ; Mavridis, Apostolos ; Tsiatsos, T. ; Revtyuk, Y. ; Kolesnyk, L.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf., Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

fYear

2012

fDate

26-28 Sept. 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

7

Abstract

This paper describes the international electronic collaboration among students of two universities in order to create a digital educational space for supporting a role playing educational activity. The paper also presents the virtual place that has been implemented in order to transfer the role playing game activity students from the traditional classroom as well as the assessment of the whole activity from the pedagogical and technological viewpoint.

Keywords

computer aided instruction; computer games; human computer interaction; virtual reality; 3D virtual environments; GBL; OpenSim; VLE; digital educational space; game based learning; international electronic collaboration; pedagogical viewpoint; role playing educational activity; role playing game activity; technological viewpoint; virtual learning environments; virtual place; Collaboration; Color; Educational activities; Educational institutions; Games; Investments; Virtual environments; 3D Game Based Learning; OpenSim; Simulated Environments;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Interactive Collaborative Learning (ICL), 2012 15th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Villach

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2425-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4673-2426-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICL.2012.6402170

Filename

6402170