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Experiences in Implementing an ICT-Augmented Reality as an Immersive Learning System for a Philippine HEI Nestor R. Valdez1, Marcelo V. Rivera1 and Jaderick P. Pabico2 1

Technological University of the Philippines–Taguig, Taguig City 1632, Metro Manila Institute of Computer Science, University of the Philippines Los Baños, College 4031, Laguna

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Date Received: February 20, 2015; Date Revised: March 17, 2015 Abstract – The use and implementation of virtual learning environments (VLEs) in higher education instruction has been in place since the advent of computer networking and popularized by the accessibility of the Internet. Because of the fast-paced advances in hardware and software technologies that stimulate the human senses, the number and the quality of researches on the use of three-dimensional (3D) environments to augment the experiences of learners have increased in recent years. Since VLEs can be customized for the learners' needs, they have been used to provide a virtual immersion that is otherwise difficult, if not impossible, to experience in real-world (e.g., teaching the effect of varying planetary gravities on objects). This paper presents the experiences in building and implementing a 3D avatar-based virtual world (3DAVW) as a VLE (3D-AVLE) for the Technological University of the Philippines-Taguig (TUP-T), a higher education institution (HEI) in the Philippines. Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) systems were used, such as the OpenSimulator and various 3D renderers, to create a replica of the TUP-T campus in a simulated 3D world. The 3D-AVLE runs in a single server that is connected to the learners' computers via a simply-wired local area network (LAN). The use of various networking optimization techniques was experimented on to provide the learners and the instructors alike a seamless experience and lag-less immersion within the 3D-AVLE. With the current LAN setup in TUP-T, the optimal number of concurrent users that can be accommodated without sacrificing connectivity and the quality of virtual experience was found to be at 30 users, exactly the mean class size in TUP-T. The 3DAVLE allows for recording of the learners' experiences which provides the learners a facility to review the lessons at a later time. Classes in fundamental topics in engineering sciences were conducted using the usual

teaching aid technologies such as the presentation software, and by dragging-and-dropping the presentation files to the 3D-AVLE, resulting to increased learning curve by both the instructors and the learners. Keywords – 3D Virtual Learning Environment, OpenSimulator, student performance INTRODUCTION The interest of students to latest information and communication technology (ICT) applications and tools, particularly online and network games, multimedia, social networking, chat, and Internet surfing, has been recently persevering. Students consuming excessive hours on different online games and activities have always been a concern to parents as well as educators because these seemingly “addictive” technological innovations are “taking away students from books towards electronic gadgets” [1]. There is an ongoing pattern that the classical way of teaching is no longer effective to today's technology-aware youth. To bring back the youth to “reading books,” a management change that use these technological innovations for instruction is inevitable [2]. More and more educational institutions worldwide have already found out that resistance to the forces of change brought about by ICT is a futile curriculum management strategy. Educational institutions have no other recourse but to accept these changes and adapt to the innovations offered by these technologies [3]. The recent developments in ICT must not be seen by educators and school administrators as its competitors to students' attention but as opportunities to evaluate the prospect of these developments as areas to enhance the students' learning experience. Experiences learned by educators worldwide in using such technologies show that there are a plethora of motivating factors in using

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Asia Pacific Journal of Education, Arts and Sciences, Vol. 2 No. 2, April 2015 __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ICT for enhanced learning. One among the many cited to the following questions: How this new teaching motivations is the flexibility of these technologies to approach will affect the academic performance of the adapt to the learners' needs. The potential of ICT to students? Will this method be more effective than the augment the traditional classroom settings has already traditional classroom type of teaching? With been exploited by others in immersing students, for dissimilarity in culture compared to other countries, as example, to the reconstruction of a combination of real well as the various regional differences within the and imaginary environments that are remotely located, country, it is most likely that the result will vary if existed in different times, and scaled differently [4]. conducted in a national level. Although the end result of Imagine the experience a learner would have in a world this research undertaking is to measure the performance geography class if she*can be in a foreign land of students who were taught certain topics under the complete with the reconstruction of its geographical 3D-AVLE, the various outcomes of the research are features, or in a history class in an ancient site complete presented in three different parts: software technologies, with artifacts, or in a chemistry class in a sophisticated hardware setup optimization, and classroom laboratory and is able to handle contraptions and implementation experiences; student perception; and chemicals safely, or in an astronomy class in a galaxy student performance. reduced to a navigable size. This list can go on and on This paper presents the first part in the hope that without boundary because there is no limit to learning other educational institutions within the Philippine with ICT-augmented reality. setting will learn from the experiences and come up To date, there exists a number of developed systems with a better or customized 3D-AVLE setup of their that provide augmented reality using 3D avatar-base own. The other two parts are discussed in detail in virtual worlds (3D-AVW). Examples of such systems separate presentations [8,9]. are the (Teen) Second Life (SL/TSL) [5], Open With the often and vast changes in ICT, it is Wonderland (OWL) [6], and Open Simulator important to be in line with the current trend, (OpenSim) [7]. SL/TSL is available commercially while particularly with the 3D-AVLE. As far as the records OWL and OpenSim are free and open source software show in various archiving publications, this research (FOSS) systems. Some higher education institutions study was the first to be conducted within the (HEIs) worldwide have already implemented these 3D- Technological University of the Philippines-Taguig AVW as their own VLE resulting to a 3D avatar-based (TUP-T), if not in the whole higher education system in virtual learning environment (3D-AVLE). Figure 1 the country. Here, the students’ perception and shows an example screenshot of one learning session performance of teaching and learning while being using SL/TSL. conducted in 3D-AVLE were measured. With this To date, there are no studies that have been implementation, it is envisioned that the TUP-T campus conducted in the Philippines that measure the will benefit in the future with the development of 3Dperception and performance of the students in a 3D- AVLE for TUP-T. AVLE. This research endeavor aims to provide answers (a)

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Figure 1. A screenshot of an example learning session in the point of view of one of the participants using (a) SL/TSL (image source: http://sitearm.files.wordpress.com), and (b) OWL (image source: http://www.hypergridbusiness.com). 83 P-ISSN 2362-8022 | E-ISSN 2362-8030

Asia Pacific Journal of Education, Arts and Sciences, Vol. 2 No. 2, April 2015 __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Particularly, the curricula could be improved into 2 shows the conceptual relationship of various software using this new mode of teaching, and if successful may technologies used in 3D-AVLE. The 3D-AVLE is be able to accommodate the growing quantity of composed of a server which allows connections by the incoming students to TUP-T, not only to accommodate clients. The whole client-server connectivity is provided the growing population of the City of Taguig but also to by OpenSim [7]. The virtual objects that are stored and the predicted influx of foreign students due to the computed by the server are rendered by the client and formal implementation of the ASEAN Free Trade Area shown through a virtual environment viewer, while the (AFTA) [10]. audio communication between clients are handled by a In this paper, the software technologies used in standard audio transmission codec. developing the 3D-AVLE are presented. The methodology used in optimizing the limited hardware A. 3D-AVLE One of the primary needs in creating a 3D-AVLE is systems that TUP-T allowed to be used for this purpose is shown. The experiences in implementing the 3D- the creation of 3D objects into the well-known SL/TSL. AVLE as a different learning environment for the SL/TSL is the most popular commercially available 3Dstudents are discussed. Just to provide completeness to AVLE platform that has been used by various open and the paper, a summarized portion of the results obtained distance education institutions worldwide. During the in measuring the student perception and performance development days of SL/TSL, people would reproduce are also presented, although the details are presented the buildings and classrooms they were familiar with in elsewhere [8,9] and further improvements of these will real life [11]. Within SL/TSL, university teachers typically think first of opportunities to present be presented in the future. information in ways they know, such as with slides and video clips. While slides and video clips are possible in SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGIES SL/TSL, it is more efficient to use other well-developed We discuss in this section the various software e-platforms intended for presentations. According to a technologies used in implementing the 3D-AVLE. SL/TSL researcher in an HEI setting, SL/TSL allowed Although we are able to find an acceptable performance them to explore potential applications for education, of the 3D-AVLE with the combinations of these which were both impressive and surprising to everyone software technologies, we provide caution to the readers involved in the endeavour [12]. Students who that these may not provide optimal student experience participated in SL/TSL achieved a grade standing 28% with their implementations as the system is also higher than the previous class who did not utilize virtual dependent on the variability brought about by the worlds [13]. underlying hardware systems, data communication systems, and more importantly, the peopleware. Figure

Figure 2. The conceptual relationship of various software technologies in 3D-AVLE.

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Figure 3. An age-group selection of avatars for the female gender in 3D-AVLE: (a) young adult, (b) collegiate, (c) graduate, (d) adult, (e) middle-aged, and (f) elderly. In creating 3D-AVLEs, there are development platforms that can be used in order to lessen the cost, or even to freely make them. OpenSim [7] is a free and open source software (FOSS) 3D application server that can be run on multiple operating systems and hardware platforms. Because OpenSim uses the same messaging protocol which is the core of SL [5], it can be used to simulate virtual environments similar to SL/TSL [7]. However, since OpenSim is FOSS while SL/TSL is a commercial platform [14], then OpenSim is a more logical choice between the two for implementation in TUP-T. B. Avatars as Student Representatives 3D-AVLE is a first-person point-of-view (FP-POV) system wherein what the student users see in the computer monitor is the immediate virtual environment. However, to differentiate it from most FP-POV systems, the 3D-AVLE has a capability of a perceived camera which pans-out of the point-of-view of the student user, giving the user a third-person point-of-view of her virtual representative. This virtual representative is called an avatar, a personalized graphic representation or rendering that represents a computer user or the user's alter ego or character. The avatar allows the 3DAVLE user the capability to change roles: as an active actor as herself, and as a spectator. 3D-AVLE provides various capabilities to give the avatar its own personality. Figure 3 shows an example selection of avatars for the female gender in 3D-AVLE. There does exist a selection for the male gender also. C. Virtual Object Editors Another tool that we found essential in creating a virtual world is a virtual object editor, where another

FOSS is the Sweet Home 3D (SH3D). SH3D is an interior design application software that helps in outlining the structure of classroom buildings and other 3D objects. SH3D is easier to use because it can import a blueprint of a floor plan which can speed up drawing of the walls of an existing structure [15]. However, SH3D saves work in a wavefront object file which is not known to OpenSim.

Figure 4. The flowchart for creating virtual objects using various virtual object editors. Another editor that can be used in creating a 3DAVLE is the FOSS Blender 3D (B3D) editor. B3D was developed to help graphics artists create 3D graphics [16-18]. In fact many professionals and 3D artists consider B3D as being the best open source solution for 3D computer graphics [19]. In this study, we used B3D to convert the wavefront object file into its collada counterpart. The collada formats are the 3D objects inputs for OpenSim. The flowchart with corresponding

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Asia Pacific Journal of Education, Arts and Sciences, Vol. 2 No. 2, April 2015 __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ object editors used for creating virtual objects from presses of the keyboard and the mouse movement, models of real-world ones is shown in Figure 4. similar to how first-person shooter games are controlled. CVLV allows for photorealistic rendering of D. Virtual World Viewers bumps in textures, of shadows due to the effect of trees In order for the 3D virtual objects to be visible and and atmospheric phenomena, and of reflections on be manipulated by our students, we used the Cool shiny objects. For example, bumps in virtual walls are Virtual Life Viewer (CVLV). CVLV is particularly used rendered with photo-realism if the real-world walls are for SL/TSL and OpenSim grids [20], and is also FOSS. finished with bumps, multiple shadows are rendered Another virtual life viewer is the Imprudence Viewer correctly due to the effect of sunlight scattering as a (IV), which is also being used worldwide with result of cloudy skies, and wavy reflections are rendered OpenSim. However, due to IV's limited functions like correctly on water reflections. Figure 5 shows the TUPthe capability to upload personalized objects [21], we T facade and the campus as respectively seen in chose to use the CVLV, instead. photographs and as 3D-AVLE virtual objects through With the CVLV, a student can manipulate the movement the CVLV. of her avatar using the combination of arrow key

(a) TUP-T facade

(b) TUP-T campus

Figure 5. The TUP-T (a) facade, and (b) campus as seen in photographs (left) and as converted into virtual objects and seen through CVLV (right). 86 P-ISSN 2362-8022 | E-ISSN 2362-8030

Asia Pacific Journal of Education, Arts and Sciences, Vol. 2 No. 2, April 2015 __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ satisfaction, operational speed, and perceived E. Audio Chat Tool contentment with regards to learning and teaching We used the voice chat software suite called Mumble sessions conducted in our 3D-AVLE. Specifically, our & Murmur to provide our students the capability to client desktops are equipped with Intel Core 2 Duo interact and orally communicate with each other and processor, 2GB DDR3 memory, and Intel G41 Express with their instructor. Mumble is the client software chipset with built-in video card. These desktops are the system and is installed in the students' computers, while ones available in the TUP-T computer laboratory. Our Murmur is the server software system and is installed in hardware system can handle 30 to 32 simultaneous the laboratory's server computer. The software suite is online users. We measured the response rate of our 3DFOSS and performs audio communication with low- AVLE, particularly the smoothness of the rendering of latency yet high quality voice chat capability through the virtual world viewer, and we found that it can the Opus interactive audio codec [22]. Opus is the handle the load demand at maximum capacity. Even standard for speech and music transmission over the though our hardware system can handle up to 32 Internet as specified in the RFC 6716 by the Internet concurrent users, we chose to connect up to 16 students Engineering Task Force (IETF). Opus is a combination only to provide us with an allowance for a possible of the Speex and the Constrained Energy Lapped backlog that we did not foresee in this optimization Transform (CELT) ultra-low delay audio codecs. Both step. Speex and CELT are audio compression and transmission algorithms. The only difference is that B. Communication Platform Speex was optimized for speech [23], while CELT was We provided the students each with a headset and a optimized for music [24]. Since Opus is a combination microphone which they used as their oral of the two codes, then Opus is optimized for both communication tool. This hardware allowed the speech and music transmission over the Internet and students to participate in class discussion, raise queries therefore is a very good codec for interactive voice to instructors or fellow students, answer questions communication. themselves, participate in a debate, or voice out their Aside from the standard audio transmission own opinion in the subject being delivered. With a press characteristics of Mumble, we chose the suite because of a button, CVLV allows a student to “shout,” “talk,” of the additional pre-processing it performs to remove or “whisper” [7, 20]. When the “shout” button is background noise. The removal of the background noise pressed, a word spoken with a normal loudness by a improves the clarity of spoken sound. Additionally for student will be heard with a louder volume in the 3Dstereo sound systems which we implemented for AVLE by all students whose respective avatars are in realistic sound experience of the students, Mumble also the same room, the loudness of which is corrected by performs positional audio [25] which allows the the distance of the user's avatar to the other avatars. A realistic sound rendering of the position of the source of “talk” means that the spoken words of the user will only sound. For example, if Student A is talking to the avatar be heard by those users whose avatars are in close of Student B who is standing at Student A's right side, proximity to hers. A “whisper” allows a user to directly the audio of Student B will be louder at Student A's talk to a selected avatar, and only the person right speaker. If Student A leaves the virtual classroom, representing that avatar will be able to hear the spoken her audio will not be heard by the students whose words by the user, even if in reality the user actually respective avatars were left in the virtual classroom. shouted those words. Without positional audio capability, all students will hear each other's spoken words with the same loudness IMPLEMENTATION EXPERIENCES and at the same perceived direction, even if the avatar representing the student is far from the other students. A. Access to 3D-AVLE Like any other multi-user applications, each student HARDWARE PLATFORM needs to undergo registration first before they can be allowed to participate in the 3D-AVLE. The students A. Client Desktop Computers needed to sign-in with their Firstname and Lastname on In our 3D-AVLE hardware subsystem, we used 30 the respective text boxes provided by 3D-AVLE in the desktop computers with identical motherboards, registration box. 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Asia Pacific Journal of Education, Arts and Sciences, Vol. 2 No. 2, April 2015 __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ (a) View of the back end of a TUP-T classroom.

(b) View of the front end of the same classroom.

Figure 6. The back and front end views of a TUP-T classroom as seen in photographs (left) and as converted into virtual objects and seen through CVLV (right). We allowed our students to change their avatar appearances as they please by providing then with a wide variety of choices for clothes and accessories. As soon as their accounts were created, we then proceeded in setting up the things needed to start the lesson in the virtual classroom. Figure 6 shows the back and front views of a real TUP-T classroom and its virtual counterpart in the 3D-AVLE. B. Preparation of Teaching Materials We needed to upload the images of the presentation slides that we used to deliver our subject matter. The slide images were transferred from the OpenSim inventory to Sloodle [26] using a drag-and-drop process. Sloodle is a presentation slides presenter used primarily for OpenSim. With the presenter, the

presentation slides was translated into an object with a script to display the slides using navigational buttons. We experienced permission lock-out while using Sloodle, which maintains a list of students that we allowed to view our presentation slides. Initially, we provided permission to 10 students without problem. However, when we added the number of students to be allowed access to the slides, the problem surfaced when the presenter need to accept the request to view the presentation from the 13th to 15th random users. Here, CVLV hanged up after the permission window showed up. This affected the rest of the students who were already given permission. To resolve this, students who were included in the permitted list needed to log-out of the 3D-AVLE leaving behind those that need to be set-

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Asia Pacific Journal of Education, Arts and Sciences, Vol. 2 No. 2, April 2015 __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ up. As soon as the request for the remaining students both groups took. The pretest questions asked were the was accepted, the problem was solved. same for both groups. The students in Group A proceeded to take the lesson conducted in 3D-AVLE C. Measurement of Student Perception while those in Group B took the same lecture in a We modified the Athabasca University LimeSurvey traditional classroom setting. Students from both Community of Inquiry (COI) framework for Virtual groups, then, took the post-test examination. We Worlds to provide us a measure for assessing the repeated this process with 3 more other lessons. students' perception in using the 3D-AVLE. COI is a However, in succeeding lessons, students from the two survey form developed to allow researchers, teachers groups interchanged. The students who took the and students to assess the learning that occurs in immediate past preceding lesson from 3D-AVLE took SL/TSL [27, 28]. We customized COI for use by the the immediate next succeeding lesson from the TUP-T students. The COI contains three categories: traditional classroom. Similarly, those students who Teaching Presence (TP), Social Presence (SP), and took the immediate past preceding lesson from the Cognitive Presence (CP). In order to measure traditional setting took the immediate next succeeding numerically the different elements of the COI from a lesson from 3D-AVLE. Results show that students who student’s perspective, we used the five-point Likert took their lessons from 3D-AVLE performed better in scale instrument [29-31] as follows: 1 means Strongly the post-test while all pretest scores for both groups are Disagree (SD), 2 means Disagree (D), 3 means Neutral not statistically different from each other [9]. This result (N), 4 means Agree (A), and 5 means Strongly Agree is in agreement with what was found earlier by other (SA). These numbers estimate the perception of the researchers [13]. virtual learners [32-33] as they answer their respective levels of agreements to the respective statements in the SUMMARY COI. We conducted the survey after the students took In this paper, we presented our experiences in their second examination and the results show that the creating and implementing a 3D-AVLE for TUP-T. We 3D-AVLE can provide the students with the teaching, discussed the particular software that we used and the social, and cognitive presence that they need for corresponding reasons why we chose them. We learning. We presented this result in detail in another presented our hardware platform and how we optimized paper [8]. them for use by up to 16 students who concurrently connected to be able to attend a virtual lesson. We also D. Measurement of Student Performance presented our implementation experiences, including To measure the performance of a student in a 3D those activities where we measured the student virtual environment, we conducted pretest and posttest perception on using the 3D-AVLE, as well as their examinations during their 3D-AVLE learning performance in taking lessons with it. Students experiences. The measurement is based on the perceived that the 3D-AVLE was successful in framework shown in Figure 7. Here, we divided our providing them with teaching, social, and cognitive classes into two groups, Group A and Group B. Each presence [8], and at the same time, using it for learning group is composed of up to 15 students. For each increases student performance [9]. lesson, we conducted a pretest which all students from

Figure 7. The conceptual framework for measuring the performance of students in 3D-AVLE. 89 P-ISSN 2362-8022 | E-ISSN 2362-8030

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