Date

21/05/2010

Lecturer

Mariano Rico (UAM)

Summary

Participants of the project V-Leaf have developed on the platform OpenSim a virtual learning environment that allows tasks to be very expensive and / or complex in the real world.

This new platform has been tested with high school students and college preparation, with an excellent reception by teachers and students. The contact with real students and teachers detected problems typical of environments
virtual education, such as increasing the effort to which teachers to keep the attention of students, or verification by the teacher for the correct understanding of the concepts taught. To solve such problems have developed tools for teachers and students that are used in the virtual world V-Leaf. Monitoring techniques such as sight, or recommender systems and automatic guided, are proving useful for these tasks.

Author Biography

Mariano Rico (UAM)

Mariano Rico holds a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering and Telecommunications (2009), and Bachelor of CC. Physics (1992 Fundamental Physics specialization), both from the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (UAM). From 1992 to 2003 R & D engineer and project manager in R & D by private companies. During five years has been Assistant Professor at the Polytechnic School of the UAM. His interest focuses on the Semantic Web, Virtual Worlds, Human-Computer Interaction, and Architectures and Web Services.

He has made two pre-doctoral stays in Digital Enterprise Research Institute ( DERI ), a world reference center in Semantic Web, where he worked in interaction with Semantic Web Services and Technologies Wiki. He currently works full time at the V-Leaf project as a senior researcher and associate professor at the UC3M .

Slides

Videos

Seminario eMadrid: Plataformas y herramientas para el e-learning - V-LeaF, una plataforma educativa basada en mundos virtuales from eMadrid net on Vimeo.