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Metaverse-enabled Learning Spaces (MeLS) offer significant improvements over traditional modes of teaching allowing for experiential learning. On the other hand, there is large number of capabilities the immersive 3D word of Metaverse-enabled spaces has to offer to traditional web-based tools for learning. Unfortunately, those capabilities are not being leveraged. We build upon a number of open source learning packages and offer an architecture for Metaverse services extending learning capabilities by offering 3D environments as services inside and in combination with more traditional web-based systems. The goal is to allow educators and students to easily move from traditional web-based systems into MeLS experiencing environments, which are not available in a traditional LMS software package, but can be offered or enhanced by the Metaverse presentation layer. This is made possible by our method for performing mediated teleporting into the MeLS.
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Marmaridis, I., Griffith, S. (2009). Metaverse Services: Extensible Learning with Mediated Teleporting into 3D Environments. In: Yang, J., Ginige, A., Mayr, H.C., Kutsche, RD. (eds) Information Systems: Modeling, Development, and Integration. UNISCON 2009. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 20. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-01112-2_24
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