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Virtual Campuses with Social Learning Environments: A Future Alternative for Traditional Campuses

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Learning Technology for Education Challenges (LTEC 2023)

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Covid 19 has been a tremendous impact on all the modern society, the 21st century has been shaped by its implication, digital transformation of all business have been accelerated and stress, but what is the Higher Education reactions and how its processes will be transform.

It has been more than two decades since the concept of distance learning was implemented, there have been several online Universities in the world.

A few year ago, there were big arguments about the credibility and quality of remote education with systems. E learning platforms were on the rise, and MOOCs, Massive online Courses were given all over the place, then some sort of disbelief and other factors were slowing the advocacy of this emerging educational technologies.

Then Covid came, and suddenly all Higher Education in the World is remote, with e-learning platforms and has been for the last two years, half of the education of all professionals has been remote.

One of the aspects of distance learning is their more isolated learning mode and little social interaction, an experiment of three different student exchange programs were conducted making groups of students from different universities work together on a virtual campus with avatars.

The results were a very positive response to having virtual social interaction tools and activities, the level of technology has advance enough to use these virtual worlds and students satisfaction is very high, however big efforts on customization of programs and environments must be made.

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Liberona, D., Kumaresan, A., Valenzuela, L., Tarazona, G., Lonhinova, M. (2023). Virtual Campuses with Social Learning Environments: A Future Alternative for Traditional Campuses. In: Uden, L., Liberona, D. (eds) Learning Technology for Education Challenges. LTEC 2023. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1830. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-34754-2_3

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