Constructing a 3D Virtual World for Foreign Language Learning Based on Open Source Freeware

Chen, Hao-Jan; Su, Cheng-chao

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-23456-9_10

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“…Duncan, Miller, and Jiang (2012) noticed that virtual worlds were often perceived as an environment for computer games. Chen and Su (2011) report that the combination of interactive 3D graphics, simulation technology, virtual reality and VoIP protocol was first implemented in gaming industry. This means that the virtual worlds based on the environments with the same features are closely related to the gaming principles.…”

Section: Exploitation Of the Virtual Worlds In Tourismmentioning

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Exploitation of the Virtual Worlds in Tourism and Tourism Education

Zejda

2016

Czech Journal of Tourism

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Academics perceive a great potential of virtual worlds in various areas, including tourism and education. efforts adapting the virtual worlds in practice are, however, still marginal. there is no clear definition of the virtual world.therefore the author of this article attempts to provide one. the paper also focuses on the barriers of a wider exploitation of the virtual worlds and discusses the principles that might help to increase their potential in tourism area. One of the principles -gamification -favours a wider adaptation of the virtual worlds in tourism. Applying gamification principles provides visitors with some unique experiences while serving as a powerful marketing tool for institutions. the benefits of implementing tourism education activities based on cooperative principles set in an immersive environment of the virtual worlds are depicted afterwards. finally, this paper includes successful case studies, which show advantages and drawbacks of some approaches in exploiting the virtual worlds in tourism and tourism education.

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Section: Exploitation Of the Virtual Worlds In Tourismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Exploitation of the Virtual Worlds in Tourism and Tourism Education

Zejda

2016

Czech Journal of Tourism

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“…Nevertheless, for serious gaming to become accepted, these criticisms must be addressed [25], as much as the need to demonstrate the clinical effectiveness of serious gaming [26,27]. There is some evidence that the serious game for education is a suitable and beneficial approach to foster learning motivation [28], engagement with a subject, and to improve the attitude towards a subject [29,30].…”

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A Knowledge-intensive Serious Game for Education of Traditional Chinese Medicine: A Pilot Study

Huang¹,

Liu²,

Zhai³

et al. 2015

IJHIT

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Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) plays an important role in SouthEast Asia, and increasingly in the West. However, learning and mastering TCM knowledge are still an obscure problem for researchers all over the world, especially for beginners. With the development of computer science, serious game rising in a wide range of fields like education, training and simulation, etc. In this paper, we design and implementation a knowledge-intensive serious game for education of TCM. When the users play this game, they will finding learning is an interesting thing. We chose the Unity 3D as our game engine, 3ds Max 2013 as model design tools. When the users log in the game, it will presents a series of scenes include some tasks and questions about the TCM knowledge. After a series tasks and test, the reslut shows that serious game for TCM education proved effective to help the user remember and comprehend the concept of TCM.

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Bolstering the quality and integrity of online collaborative university- level courses via an open Sim standalone server in conjunction with sloodle

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2014

Educ Inf Technol

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The contemporary era provides several challenges which extend from the reconstitution of an innovative knowledge domain and curricula to candidate learning platforms that support online course delivery methods. Educators and scholars on these demands have recently started to rethink alternative ways for the assimilation of the experiential knowledge in three-dimensional (3D) technologically advanced environments, like 3D multi-user virtual worlds. In spite the widespread dissemination and proliferation of novel educational implications by utilizing 3D multi-user virtual worlds combined with the 2D interface of LMS (Learning Management Systems) and the assessment of the effectiveness based on the online course delivery method in a longterm usability is still absent from the international academic literature. This study presents interoperability issues focused on the utilization of the virtual world Open Simulator (Open Sim) in conjunction with Sloodle (Simulation Linked Object Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment) as a free plug-in module. The evaluation of this online learning process according to an empirical research method became possible with the assistance of ninety-five (95) students by two different academic sectors that participated in this project and measured the capabilities and instructional affordances of this platform. The evaluation process was focused on four multi-dimensional parameters (psychological-pedagogical, technical-operational, organizational-financial, and socio-cultural). The study findings based on students' experiences revealed that both platforms could be sufficiently connected as a unique platform which can increase the users' learning abilities. This "hybrid" platform can adequately convert the ordinary multi-user virtual world of Open Sim and Sloodle in a common "incubator" of knowledge for online courses at university level. At the end, the instructional affordances and implications for future-driven directions are also discussed.

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Constructing a 3D Virtual World for Foreign Language Learning Based on Open Source Freeware

Cited by 9 publications

References 4 publications

Exploitation of the Virtual Worlds in Tourism and Tourism Education

Exploitation of the Virtual Worlds in Tourism and Tourism Education

A Knowledge-intensive Serious Game for Education of Traditional Chinese Medicine: A Pilot Study

Bolstering the quality and integrity of online collaborative university- level courses via an open Sim standalone server in conjunction with sloodle

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