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Virtual worlds and their inclusion in education has been the subject of research in the Connote, and in July, a paper presented at Florida, United States, earned recognition as the best presentation of the table of new educational technologies.

Alejandro Lopez, head of the Department of Productivity and Technological Development, the presentation of work in which also participated Alberto Becerra, president of Connote as a consultant in a team which also includes Uvalde Macias, Solano and Fabric Gabriel Trujillo.

The Symposium on Education, Cybernetics and Informatics is listed as one of the largest in the area, showing educational technologies, and most important about them is happening in the first world.

Alejandro Lopez explained that the work of teachers Connote is “the investigation of virtual worlds, and is doing Connote to develop and understand these technologies to be used in the future, the connection has been made of Second Life with Model to develop online activities.”

The paper, Lopez said the trends follow those technologies to take advantage of them at universities, and the progress of what they have done and the results obtained in the Connote. Referring to the achievements at the university, said that virtual worlds have been implemented to test the academic side, in tutorials and the classroom as such.

The work was carried out in three lines connecting the platform Model with Second Life using Soluble, modeling three-dimensional shapes for use as a practical three-dimensional spaces that can not only read but can use it to achieve learning such experiences in nursing or the motion of objects modeling in engineering and finally the extension of the classroom using Second Life, what happens in classrooms can be transmitted through cameras and microphones to this program for those who do notary to continue their activities using the virtual classroom.

There has been some evidence in Connote groups and according to be projected results extend; however, there are still some obstacles as the available bandwidth in the region and video technologies with users’ computers.

Alejandro Lopez said the team’s work was recognized Connote because it is “difficult to combine the technological with the educational and most that do are often reduced to matters that have already been studied enough, such as the use of platforms in the designed learning objects, instructional design itself, issues that are already part of what most universities do. However, I think this subject is still new and unexplored by most universities. “

From now on, the team will focus on reviewing the results of the progress and future, train teachers and disseminate the work in larger groups of students, said Lopez.