Education for Inclusion Using Virtual Worlds: An Experience Using OpenSim

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Author(s): Juan Mateu (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain), María José Lasala (IES Ernest Lluch, Spain)and Xavier Alamán (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain)
Copyright: 2014
Pages: 25
Source title: K-12 Education: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Information Resources Management Association (USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-4502-8.ch007

Keywords: Education / Information Science Reference / K-12 Education

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In this chapter, the authors present an introduction to the use of virtual worlds in education, an analysis of the stronger and weaker points that such environments offer for high school education, and an experience on applying such technologies for the inclusion at a concrete high school in Cunit (Spain). In this high school, there is a need for teaching immigrant children the Catalan language when they arrive, in order to allow them to continue their studies integrated with the rest of the students. The chapter describes an experience on using virtual worlds for achieving such goal, based on the open software platform called “OpenSim.”

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