Open AccessA virtual environment study in entrepreneurship education of young children
Author(s) -
Ângela Pereira,
Paulo Martins,
Leonel Morgado,
Benjamim Fonseca
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
journal of virtual worlds research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1941-8477
DOI - 10.4101/jvwr.v2i1.406
Subject(s) - entrepreneurship , metaverse , entrepreneurship education , set (abstract data type) , exploratory research , knowledge management , sociology , mathematics education , computer science , pedagogy , psychology , virtual reality , human–computer interaction , business , social science , finance , programming language
In this article, we present an exploratory study on the use of 3-D virtual worlds in entrepreneurship education for children of primary school in a virtual world from the Activeworlds Educational Universe: “Entrepreneurship in Basic Education – 1st cycle.” This study allowed us to identify a set of technological problems in the use of these environments for teaching entrepreneurship to children. It allowed us to define a range of requirements that must be fulfilled in order to provide a software system that supports these activities in virtual worlds.