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Benefits of Virtual Worlds in Educational Environments

Benefits of Virtual Worlds in Educational Environments
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Author(s): Vicente Galiano (Miguel Hernandez University, Spain)and Victoria Herranz (Miguel Hernandez University, Spain)
Copyright: 2013
Pages: 11
Source title: Student Usability in Educational Software and Games: Improving Experiences
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Carina Gonzalez (University of La Laguna, Spain)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-1987-6.ch015

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Abstract

In this chapter, the authors describe the project of a virtual world that they developed in their university and with their students. In this work, they joined concepts like social networks and virtual reality, creating a virtual model of the University Miguel Hernandez (UMH), where students are able to walk around the campus, inside the buildings, chat with other students, and moreover, use videoconferencing rooms where students talk and see other students in the same virtual world. The authors describe this project, called UMHvirtual (available in http://virtual.umh.es), which has been supervised by the authors, implemented by a group of students, and focused on all the university students.

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