Analyzing trends in academic papers about ubiquitous virtual worlds in education using text mining

Aliane Loureiro Krassmann; Fabrício Herpich; Magda Bercht; Sílvio Cesar Cazella

doi:10.31686/ijier.vol5.iss4.650

Authors

Aliane Loureiro Krassmann Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Fabrício Herpich Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Magda Bercht Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Sílvio Cesar Cazella Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31686/ijier.vol5.iss4.650

Keywords:

Virtual Worlds, Ubiquitous Computing, Text Mining, Education

Abstract

Contemporary teaching and learning processes increasingly require exploration and discovery activities, rather than the organized sequence of methods used in the twentieth century. This paper aims to describe a research that uses text mining techniques on a corpus composed of 10 current academic papers about educational ubiquitous’ Virtual Worlds, aiming to obtain indications about the main trends in terms of development and applications in the area. As a result, some directions have been extracted and analyzed, which revealed research opportunities in the educational field.

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