Virtual Lab: An Immersive Tool to Assist in the Teaching of Software Engineering

Author

Herpich, Fabricio ; Ribeiro Jardim, Rafaela ; Becker Nunes, Felipe ; Bierhalz Voss, Gleizer ; Manzoni Fontoura, Lisandra ; Medina, Roseclea Duarte

Author_Institution

Programa de Pos-Grad. em Iformatica (PPGI), Univ. Fed. de Santa Maria (UFSM), Santa Maria, Brazil

fYear

2014

fDate

12-15 May 2014

Firstpage

118

Lastpage

126

Abstract

With the technological progress, new alternatives that help complement the activities carried out in the educational context, such as virtual worlds have emerged. This paper presents a proposal to use the virtual world OpenSim in education, in conjunction with Moodle through Sloodle plug in. A virtual laboratory with various activities related to Software Engineering was built, in which GenMyModel tool was used for educational practice of diagrams and UML modeling. The lab was used by students and evaluated to verify its potential as an educational alternative that can help both teachers and students in the process of knowledge construction in this area of domain.

Keywords

Unified Modeling Language; computer aided instruction; computer science education; software engineering; teaching; GenMyModel tool; Moodle; OpenSim; Sloodle plug in; UML modeling; educational alternative; educational context; educational practice; immersive tool; knowledge construction; software engineering teaching; virtual laboratory; Augmented reality; OpenSimulator; Sloodle; Software Engineering; Virtual Laboratory; Virtual Worlds;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Virtual and Augmented Reality (SVR), 2014 XVI Symposium on

Conference_Location

Piata Salvador

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SVR.2014.36

Filename

6913082