Solution description

An immersive platform with 3D games, searching to increase the number of students in different areas (as for example on engineering and business careers , this will change depending on the institution we are working on). The immersive games consist of questions and answers to learn and interact simulating everyday activities in the real world. The api that we integrate is trained to interpret a natural language to be able to determine the feelings and emotions with which the question has been answered.

All this is concentrated on an immersive web APP searching for the best user experience giving them a second opinion on which path to start following.

Solution context

The challenge is to increase academic and practical performance and we are questioning how might we make our users retain and apply the knowledge they gain in the real world. We want to solve this challenge because currently there is an academic delay and the interest in learning is being lost due to the Google effect. We believe that people can revalue learning if what they learn can be put into practice in the real world and possibly applied to future problem solutions. Additionally there are many people who do not know what to study or in what area to specialize in, and with this plataform they will be able to acquire information from different areas and make a better decision.

Problem

• Google receives more than 3.5 billion search requests per year for now.This exceptional increase leads to a potential problem: students have to deal with an overload of information The combination of this information overload and long-term memory loss increases the risk that Google and company will have a negative impact on the brain.
• The COVID-19 pandemic and the closure of schools caused a lag equivalent to two years of schooling in students in Mexico, reported the Instituto Mexicano de Competitividad (IMCO).
• In its report Education in Pandemic: The Risks of Distance Classes, the IMCO pointed out that during the pandemic Mexican students lost, on average, learning equivalent to two years of schooling, according to the first estimates of the World Bank.
• According to the XV University Trends Survey 2020, 56% of students admit that they are not clear about what they are going to study. Specifically, the results indicate that 45% have doubts and 11% say they "have no idea". In relation to the causes of their indecision, 72% of respondents say that they lack academic and professional guidance.

Solution target group

Our immersive platform helps higher and middle education students who want to learn diverse topics and develop skills necessary to solve nowadays problems by exploring a virtual world, that will prevent learning from being seen as boring, and solving real life problems, that will help users to apply the knowledge acquired, unlike attending to a regular school where the Google effect and mental laziness cause students to lose interest in learning and fall behind.

Solution impact

The idea of ​​a metaverse is in the sights of great businessmen, however there is something that makes our idea different and that highlights it within the field of education. The key element will be the evaluation techniques. Within the Epiverse, users interact with three types of objects, one to receive information, another two to evaluate closed questions, and a third to answer open questions. In the open questions, a natural language analyzer stands out that will allow to interpret and analyze the feelings and emotions behind the answers to evaluate the way in which users are communicating what they are learning.

 

Additionally, the role of teachers and educational institutions will be key to controlling the validity of the content and monitoring the performance of students. Let's imagine that Luis has a question that was not clear to him with the explanation of the bot, in that case, he will be able to search for his teacher within the Epiverse and contact him directly to clarify his doubts.

Solution tweet text

Our immersive platform helps higher and middle education students who want to learn diverse topics and develop skills necessary to solve nowadays problems by exploring a virtual world, that will prevent learning from being seen as boring, and solving real life problems.

Solution innovativeness

Three js

IBM watson

Amazon web services 

Bootstrap

AI - paralleldots and meaningcloud

Solution transferability

We trust that this immersive platform with Artificial Intelligence will be of great help to new generations, so in the medium term we want to scale the project to more higher education institutions, and in the long term even to other countries. So the opportunities for market growth and therefore business are immense.

Solution sustainability

Alliances with institutions such as High Schools, Colleges and MOOCs will be key to constitute our business model, specifically the way to obtain income. We will sell to educational institutions, such as Tec de Monterrey, our technology adapted to the topics they want to cover, so that they can develop the content and deliver course accreditation recognitions, while we take care of customizing the worlds and automating the Evaluation form.

Solution team work

Alejandro Hidalgo Badillo - a01423412

Leslie Marisol de la tijera Montes - a01422679

Aarón Pérez Ontiveros - a01422524

Kimberly Atara Lopez Vazquez - A01423052