A Prototype of a Virtual World with Collaborative Games for the Study of the Periodic Table of Elements

Arelis Troetsth; Jorge Molina; Cesar Garita

doi:10.1109/TLA.2015.7055567

A Prototype of a Virtual World with Collaborative Games for the Study of the Periodic Table of Elements

Arelis Troetsth
, Jorge Molina
, Cesar Garita

University of Panama

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Abstract

Collaborative games are being increasingly used in educational platforms in order to promote specific learning skills among students through specific ludic experiences. Virtual worlds can also contribute to offer students a unique environment exploring knowledge domains while interacting with other students. This paper describes an innovative virtual world application that incorporates collaborative puzzles in order to support learning concepts related to the periodic table of elements in the context of a middle school study program. The paper provides a description of the virtual world and its games, the general system architecture, the main graphical user interfaces and validation results.

Original language	English
Article number	7055567
Pages (from-to)	476-482
Number of pages	7
Journal	IEEE Latin America Transactions
Volume	13
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/TLA.2015.7055567
State	Published - 1 Feb 2015

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collaborative games
periodic table of elements
virtual worlds

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