Knowledge Building by Full Integration With Virtual Reality Environments and Its Effects on Personal and Social Life

It is primordial to insist on a continuous education that is open, flexible, and personalized, allowing the individual to update and make his or her knowledge adequate throughout life. The creation of distributed environments for constructivist learning is a chal-lenge. Research in this field is needed for the develop-ment of cooperative learning tools able to facilitate and motivate learning. The development of intelligent didactic systems is complex, demanding the support of knowledge coming from different fields. That is why to develop this class of systems a multidisciplinary team is needed, including pedagogues; educational psy-chologists; specialists in the knowledge domain; and technicians in computer graphics, programming, multi-media, virtual reality, project management, and s