3D Multi-User Education Environments

OPEN creates video game-based learning adventures targeted to students aged 9-14, in school and at home.

Travel with us across time and space and visit treasured national parks and marine sanctuaries all over the world. Gather knowledge about past environments, see the world from the perspectives of our ancestors, participate in their way of living, and face the uncertainties they had to resolve in order to survive. Learn about the history of our planet and our human heritage by becoming part of that history.

The earth today is awash in a sea of humanity competing for finite resources on a small planet. How can we humans live well, while ensuring the well-being of all of earth’s inhabitants, now and for all generations to come?

Learn from our past, understand our present predicament, and help decide our planet’s fate.

     

 

Virtual National Park Series


Please watch our video trailer for an overview of our 3D learning environments.

                 

OPEN invites you...
...on a journey across time and space with your fellow students to:

  • Solve the riddles posed by the ancients
  • Journey with them as they left Africa millennia ago
  • Learn how they built and lost their vast empires
  • Determine how best to apply the knowledge they tried to convey to us
  • Learn from the triumphs and misfortunes of our ancestors, who struggled to survive in times of drought, ice ages, and periods of interglacial warming
  • Explore our deep past and later try to map our long-term future
 

US Department of Education IES

OPEN has received a series of Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contracts to develop 3D web-based educational video games as a supplement to upper Elementary and Middle School science, mathematics, social studies, and literacy curricula. The games are based on environments that are representations of real-world National Parks and World Heritage Sites. These include Virtual Mesa Verde, Virtual Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, Saving the Black Rhinos of Mkomazi. Our latest worlds supported by IES and now under development include Virtual Machu Picchu (Spanish and English), and Olympic National Park. read more...

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