Building Knowledge in Virtual Environments - Influence of Interpersonal Relationships: The Outlined Research

This article presents a PhD research project that will determine how to enhance learning, at the university level, based on implemented experiences in immersive collaborative virtual environments. Today’s students belong to a networked and multitasking generation, and today’s teaching strategy does not, in many situations, embrace their needs and perspectives. They need to gather competences in order to become motivated, communicative, knowledge builders. It is our belief that educators can take advantage of virtual environments to develop those competences and transfer them to real-world learning contexts.