Collaborative work in 3D-IDEs, exploring immersive learning in the metaverse

Abstract

This paper is based on the exploratory research carried out in a metaverse created specifically to teach the subject "Fundamentals of Design", which has allowed us to observe and record the characteristics and manifestations of the immersive form of the teaching-learning process with university level students; in the specific case of this document, we address the collaborative aspect of immersive learning, which is not its only characteristic, but we believe it is important to reflect and share this topic with the academic community, with the idea of demystifying the idea that learning mediated by digital technologies is a solitary process, which fosters a dehumanizing isolation; on the contrary, the main idea presented here is that immersive learning, generated in the digital technology called metaverse, has collaborative characteristics built through dynamics mediated by avataric representations interesting to explore, in order to raise its educational possibilities.