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What is Three-Dimensional Virtual World

Handbook of Research on Learning in the Age of Transhumanism
A 3D virtual environment simulated by a computer, where users can interact with each other, objects and the environment.
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Being a Post-Learner With Virtual Worlds
Ferhan Şahin (Anadolu University, Turkey) and Ezgi Doğan (Anadolu University, Turkey)
Copyright: © 2019 |Pages: 20
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-8431-5.ch012
Abstract
Transhumanism, which emerges as a movement of thought, stands out with the developments such as artificial organs, brain-to-brain knowledge and learning transfer and smart robots in the 21st century. One of these technologies, where we see early applications with the goal of reaching the post-human, is the virtual worlds. Some features of the post-humans, which can now be experienced through 3 dimensional immersive virtual worlds in a certain scale, also reveal the fact that the existing virtual worlds are a limited simulation of a transhumanist future. While the virtual worlds and transhumanism perspective is expected to be effective in various areas of human life, it will be inevitable for these effects to manifest themselves in learning processes. In this sense, evaluation of surrounding learning by virtual worlds is the main objective of this chapter. For this purpose, virtual worlds in transhumanism age were tried to be evaluated under learning context by using anime series and film samples which are yet considered as sci-fi.
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