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Proceedings of: 6th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning Towards Ubiquitous Learning (EC-TEL 2011). Palermo, Italy, 20-23 September, 2011. ; Immersive environments such as virtual worlds and virtual reality platforms are being increasingly used for educational purposes. Possibilities of these environments are huge, but also are the technical challenges that have to be overcome in order for these platforms to become more usable. One of the main problems that educators have to face when designing an educational experience for virtual worlds has to do with the orchestration of the learning sequence. In this paper, we present a novel approach to support the deployment and execution of Units of Learning (UoLs), described with an Educational Modeling Language such as IMS-LD [1], into a virtual world, with the aim to facilitate the creation of well defined learning sequences for these platforms. ; This research has been partially supported by the following projects: The Spanish CDTI project "España Virtual" funded by the Ingenio 2010 programme, subcontracted by Deimos Space; The Spanish project "Learn3: Towards Learning of the Third Kind" (TIN2008-05163/TSI) funded by the Spanish "Plan Nacional de I+D+i" of the Ministry of Research and Innovation; The project "eMadrid: Investigación y desarrollo de tecnologías para el e-learning en la Comunidad de Madrid" (S2009/TIC-1650) funded by the Government of the Region of Madrid. ; Publicado

Proceedings of: 10th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT 2010). Sousse, Tunisia, 5-7 July 2010. ; In this paper, we describe a 3D virtual collaborative system designed for the learning of Spanish as a second language. Several initiatives for second language learning in 3D virtual worlds exploiting immersive, interactive and motivating features of these worlds have been carried out successfully during the last years. However, these systems tend to be sometimes too rigid from a pedagogical point of view, requiring the presence of a teacher. We have used the Wonderland development toolkit to deploy a 3D virtual learning environment, which is flexible enough to allow learners to improve their language skills with minimum teacher's help, setting up an instructional sequence in which fostered, motivating, and pre-designed collaboration is the key for self-learning. The environment includes technical issues such as natural text chatting with synthetic characters, textual tagging of virtual objects, automatic reading of texts, and the integration of a 3D mouse in learning sequences in order to exploit the capabilities of 3D virtual worlds. ; This research has been partially supported by the following projects: The Spanish CDTI project "España Virtual" funded by the Ingenio 2010 programme, subcontracted by Deimos Space2. The Spanish project "Learn3: Towards Learing of the Third Kind" (TIN2008-05163/TSI) funded by the Spanish "Plan Nacional de I+D+i" of the Ministry of Research and Innovation. The project "eMadrid: Investigación y desarrollo de tecnologías para el e-learning en la Comunidad de Madrid" (S2009/TIC-1650) funded by the Government of the Region of Madrid. ; Publicado