On Friday 6th May 2011, I presented a co-authored paper (with my student Vikramaditya Jaligama) with title ‘An Online Virtual Learning Environment for Higher Education’, to the Workshop ‘Natural Interaction and Player Satisfaction in Games’ of the 3rd International Conference in Games and Virtual Worlds for Serious Applications (VS-Games 2011). The paper describes a novel online virtual learning classroom like environment focused for higher education.
Students can login to this virtual world in the form of their avatars and follow lecture classes and laboratories in a collaborative manner. To prove the feasibility of the system, the lecture materials from ‘3D Graphics Programming’ module were ported into the online virtual learning environment. Initial evaluation with 20 users showed that overall the online virtual learning environment is enjoyable and has the potential to be used for the development of distance learning courses and degrees.
A draft version of the article can be downloaded from here.
A draft version of the article can be downloaded from here.