Virtual World Environment Design for Vidyanusa E-Learning System

Abstract

Increasing interest in exploration of virtual worlds has lead to the creation of hundreds of such environments and it’s expansion especially in the field of education. A large number of research have focused on analyzing experiences of the use of this virtual worlds environment to the need of education. Instead of research to the design and production process of the virtual world and how it use is still relatively minimal. The purpose of this study was to design a virtual world environment and identify important themes in it according to the needs of teacher and student at this time, with the aim of assisting the teacher as information providers and educators as well as student make the learning process more fun. Model of virtual world environment are design as a product of this research.Vidyanusa e-learning system is a system that quite complex because of many themes include learning activities and subsystem to support the collaboration of the themes events. Therefore, to realize the implementation of this system, will required support from all sector of society, equitable dissemination, and use of ready use resources. Virtual world environment model are made considering of priority themes of the learning process derived from some teacher of junior highschool (SMP) in Bandung. This model explains the role of virtual world environment which differ from teacher, provide ideas and creativity on students, and suggestions for effective and efficient learning process. It can be used as starting point or as a checklist for planning and producing and ideal educational system. With some modification, the modeling process can be used in other case of virtual world environment as well. The introduction of vidyanusa e-learning system using new technologies as medium of teaching and learning, is expected to improve the quality of human resources of its most important life-phase which is the initial phase of formal education and disipline.