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

    2014 XVI Symposium on Virtual and Augmented Reality, 05/2014
    Conference Proceeding

    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.