Date

2010-12-10

Lecturer

Juan Carlos Vidal Aguiar (USC)

Summary

3D Educational environments are virtual worlds designed to encourage interaction and communication between participants of a course, drawing on immersion in virtual worlds of students and teachers. In recent years we have developed a number of 3D learning environments which aim to simulate real-world environments (Campus, classrooms, etc..) in which teaching activities take place. In these environments, however, did not avail the benefits of virtual education in terms of management and adaptation of learning activities to the students and teachers’ behavior and evolution.

This talk presents a methodology and a proposal integration of IMS LD in 3D learning environments that are supported by Second Life and Opensim platforms. Specifically, in this integration a set of scripts have been identified and developed, which allow you to collect the actions carried out by avatars (students and teachers) in the 3D learning environment, and has designed and deployed service-oriented architecture that outsources the functions of an IMS LD engine managing the activities carried out by the avatars.

Slides

Videos

Seminario eMadrid sobre "Diseño instruccional en entornos multidimensionales"- Integración de IMS LD en mundos virtuales from eMadrid net on Vimeo.

Author Biography

Juan Carlos Vidal Aguiar (USC)

Juan Carlos Aguiar Vidal is professor in the Department of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Santiago de Compostela and member of Intelligent Systems group. He completed his studies in Computer Science at the University of A Coruña in 2000, worked for several years in private companies (Union Fenosa and Soluziona), during which he participated in the design and implementation of university portal Universia, and obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Santiago de Compostela in 2010. Juan Carlos has written over 30 journal and conference articles as well as book chapters in the field of Artificial Intelligence, especially in the business process modeling and the use of soft computing techniques applied to different fields such as industry, tourism or education. In these areas has received awards for best paper in the 2006 International Symposium on Evolving Fuzzy Systems and the 8th International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems. His research interests include semantic modeling of jobs and services flow, the use of Artificial Intelligence techniques for business intelligence, development of service-oriented architecture to solve integration problems between software components. A good part of this research has been focused on Education domain, specifically in modeling and formalizing the orchestration of learning through Workflow, and its integration into virtual worlds.