COLLABORATIVE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT USING DISTRIBUTED MIXED REALITY EXPERIMENT FOR TEACHING MECHATRONICS

This work presents a virtual learning environment which uses a distributed mixed reality remote experiment for professional education in the area of Mechatronics. The proposed collaborative environment makes use of the system named deriveSERVER, which has been developed by the Bremen University, and extends it, in order to allow the integration with remote hardware or software used by the students. The remote experiment will be used to enhance lessons used in SENAI-RS, a vocational education institution in southern Brazil, enabling the development of collaborative projects among students at different SENAI sites.