An experience using metaverses for teaching mechanical physics to engineering students
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https://doi.org/10.26507/rei.v12n24.778Keywords:
Opensim, Virtual Environments, metaverse, physicsAbstract
One of the trends in the application of emerging technologies in education are virtual worlds, that brought to the internet are promising interesting advances, so the idea of designing and implementing an immersive 3D environment or metaverse has been proposed to encourage learning in Physics Mechanics of engineering students. The statistical results in subject’s failure in the Basic Sciences area at the Universidad Militar Nueva Granada, have fluctuated from 40% to 60%, igniting the alarms in the University executives. This paper describes the stages of development, conceptualization and implementation of the scenarios in the OpenSim platform, articulated from a virtual classroom in Moodle, the results presented at the end were obtained by a test applied over two groups of students; they were taking their first year of engineering degree and participated in the proposed activities.Downloads
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