Hybrid educational worlds

Author

Robles, Gregorio ; González, Jorge Fernández ; González-Barahona, Jesús M. ; Ramiro, Julio

Author_Institution

GSyC/LibreSoft, Univ. Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain

fYear

2012

fDate

17-20 April 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

7

Abstract

The GSyC/LibreSoft research group at the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos has been investigating serious games with smartphones. In our approach, platform developers and educators do not need to create complete virtual worlds, which are in general very time and effort consuming. In the games that have been developed, participants are provided through a mobile phone with the necessary information to imagine a virtual world and interact with other participants and objects in a manner consistent with the learning objectives. In this paper this type of game is presented and the implications of using such hybrid worlds in the creation of serious games for smartphones will be discussed.

Keywords

computer aided instruction; computer games; human computer interaction; mobile computing; smart phones; GSyC-LibreSoft research group; Universidad Rey Juan Carlos; hybrid educational worlds; learning objectives; mobile phone; serious games; smartphones; virtual world; Androids; Buildings; Games; Humanoid robots; Smart phones; Social network services; Software; m-learning; parallel educational worlds; serious games; technology-enhanced learning; virtual worlds;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON), 2012 IEEE

Conference_Location

Marrakech

ISSN

2165-9559

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1457-2

Electronic_ISBN

2165-9559

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EDUCON.2012.6201203

Filename

6201203