Learning in Metaverses: Co-Existing in Real Virtuality discusses a better way to understand this new learning universe, exploring the possibilities of new social organization through the use of avatars in virtual worlds. Examining platforms such as Web 3D, metaverse, MDV3D, ECODI, hybrid living and sharing spaces, gamification, alternate reality, mingled reality, and augmented reality to evaluate the possibilities for their implementation in education, this reference book will be of use to academics, educators, students, researchers, gamers, and professionals.
Luciana Backes / Luci Bebb (avatar) is a Scholar in the Post Doctoral State Abroad from CAPES at lUniversité Paris Descartes Paris V Sorbonne, in the context of the Centre dÉtudes sur lActuel et le Quotidien (CEAQ). She is a Doctor in Education received from the Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos (UNISINOS) and in Sciences de lÉducation by Université Lumière Lyon 2. She received a Masters in Education from UNISINOS and Specialist in Informatics in Distance Education from the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS). She graduated in Pedagogy also from UNISINOS. She is currently a Researcher Professor in the Pos Graduation Program in Education from the Centro Universitário La Salle (UNILASSALE), in the Computing Course. She is a member of the Research Group in Digital Education GPe-dU UNISINOS/CNPq, the Research Group of Contemporanea Culture, socialbilities and educational practices UNILASALLE/CNPq, and the Groupe de Recherche sur la Technique et le Quotidien GRETECH/Sorbonne. Through different groups, he develops research projects and theorization about Education, Educators Formation, Pedagogical Practices, Digital Technologies, Emerging Digital Technologies (mainly in metaverses 3D Digital Virtual World in the context of digital technological Hybridism), Virtual Communities of Learning, Tribes, Structural Coupling in different domains, Configuring of Digital Virtual Spaces, Constitution of Co-existing of Digital Virtual Nature, and Emerging Culture in Digital Virtual Spaces. She has been working, since 1989, in the area with experience in Children Education, Elementary Education, High School, Professionalizing Education, and Graduate Studies including Pos Graduation in the specialization levels of masters and doctorate. She has also worked in human resources in the capacitating and development processes. Several of her articles have been published in journals and events in Brazil and abroad, besides being the author of books and chapters in books published in Brazil. She is one of the authors of the book Comunidades de Aprendizagem e de Prática em Metaversos, edited by Cortez in 2012. [Editor]