Exploiting 3D virtual environments
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The document outlines a collaborative project between a Greek and a Ukrainian university, focusing on using an open-source platform, OpenSim, to facilitate a role-playing educational activity for postgraduate students. It details the development and implementation of a virtual environment for game-based learning, assessing its effectiveness in comparison to traditional classroom settings. Evaluation results indicate positive student experiences, with a majority expressing interest in future virtual collaborative activities and finding the OpenSim platform suitable for such educational purposes.
![Method of evaluation cycles [1 cycle]
Pre-analysis phase
Questionnaire about user’s profile
Usability phase
Expert’s evaluation
Student’s familiarization
Learning phase
12 students answered 64 questions about the
virtual world and its objects
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Exploiting 3D virtual environments
- 1. Agathi Deligiannakou Yevgen Revtyuk Anastasia Papavasileiou Lilya Kolesnyk Eleni Polymeraki Christina Volioti Apostolos Mavridis Thrasyvoulos Tsiatsos Department of Informatics Faculty of Management
- 2. 1) Introduction 2) About EICL Project 3) Scenario of the Educational Activity 4) Design of the Virtual Place for Supporting Role Playing Games 5) Evaluation 6) Conclusions 2
- 3. GBL: Excellent tool for facilitating situated learning promoting active learning Transfer of an educational activity from the traditional classroom to a virtual world Collaboration between two universities of different disciplines and from different countries in the context of EICL 3
- 4. 2 main goals Virtual & international collaboration among postgraduate students from AUTH and IFNTUOG for implementing the game-based scenario in the virtual educational place With the use of an open source platform (OpenSim) Conducting of the game-based collaborative learning activity undergraduate students of IFNTUOG “Investment Management” subject IFNTUOG provided the scenario AUTH created the virtual environment to support it 4
- 5. Hypotheses to be assessed 1. If the virtual world and the representations of the objects were understandable 2. If the students prefer to conduct this activity through the virtual or traditional classroom 3. If OpenSim is suitable for collaborative distance learning role-playing scenario 5
- 6. International binomial between a Greek and an Ukrainian university to support: International co-operation of teachers & students… in order to improve the learning process… by using e-tools in pilot courses 6
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- 8. Timeline of the steps and the collaboration 2 weeks 3 weeks 1 week 1 week 1 week 1 week Communication and collaboration between AUTH team and IFNTUOG assistant (via e-mail or skype) First familiarization session of IFNTUOG tutor (face-face) Creation of the virtual world by AUTH team Second familiarization session (of IFNTUOG assistant) Third familiarization (of IFNTUOG undergraduate students) Improvement of the Virtual place by AUTH team Online Role Playing Simulation Evaluation, Statistics & Conclusions 8
- 9. IFNTUOG students participated as: Roles try themselves as a part of one of the investments process negotiating sides calculate payback term & cost of the project, analyze their decisions in conditions of limited time 9
- 10. 1. Tutor’s familiarization 2. Assistant’s familiarization Guide her in the virtual world & show functionalities Comments & improvements 3. Undergraduate student’s familiarization Navigation & use of objects AUTH team made corrections & took recommendations Sent a pre-test questionnaire 10
- 11. Outside the Virtual World Process lasting 20’ Start-uppers received the detailed description of their project calculated its cost prepared their presentation Investors got the description of the Start-upper’s project different in some details each had his own amount of money decide with the whole Committee whether to invest or not Moderator was the teacher’s assistant from IFNTUOG 11
- 12. Inside the Virtual World Passing through the Role Assignment Room to choose outfit depending on the role Technical Supporters uploaded the presentations In the Conference Room each start-upper met the Credit Committee and tried to persuade them to invest – 5’ Investors asked questions & made a decision – 5’ Moderator was observing, announced which side has been more benefited, made a short discussion with the audience – 5’ 12
- 13. OpenSim is an open source platform for hosting virtual worlds based on client-server architecture Welcome area Conference Room Role Assignment Room 13
- 14. Role Assignment Clothing Boxes Room Chairs Simulation Board Conference Room Clock Discussion 14
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- 20. Method of evaluation cycles [1 cycle] Pre-analysis phase Questionnaire about user’s profile Usability phase Expert’s evaluation Student’s familiarization Learning phase 12 students answered 64 questions about the virtual world and its objects 20
- 21. H1: If the virtual world and the representations of the objects were understandable Student’s experience in the conference room was satisfactory Most of them agreed that the objects reminded them a real world conference room All students changed slides easily 92% understood where they should sit down, depending on their roles 75% understood the usability of timer ○ Only the 42% said it was helpful 21
- 22. H2: If the students prefer to conduct this activity through the virtual or traditional classroom 85% would be interested to attend lectures through OpenSim 92% found the virtual collaboration more interesting 22
- 23. H3: If OpenSim is suitable for collaborative distance learning & for role-playing scenario 77% would like to participate in more virtual collaborative activities Students described the process efficient and suitable for collaboration The majority said they would use OpenSim in the future 42% thought it was easier to collaborate through OpenSim 23
- 24. Experience evaluation after interview Communication was fast & efficient –technology definitely helped Collaboration was fruitful Different terminology, culture & language did not cause any difficulties Pleased with the outcome For computer specialists: Co-existence of Computer Science with another subject is interesting ICT is a science that can facilitate all others For investment managers: Students were interested in using OpenSim into real situations 24
- 25. Integration of Sloodle in OpenSim’s environment Users will be able to transfer digital learning material from Moodle to OpenSim Calculator Users will be able to make calculations inside the virtual world using a virtual calculator 25