Towards a Virtual Environment to Teach Natural Resouce Management based on a Virtual City Serious Game

Abstract

NATURE (Serious Games for Natural Resource Management) is an Erasmus+ project focused on building awareness, knowledge and skills on responsible natural resource management through digital experimentation in Higher Education. It is aimed to design and implement an experiential, game-based methodological learning framework to enrich existing pedagogical practices on environmental education. The NATURE solution will allow students to engage with several scenario environments through critical and entrepreneurial thinking interventions towards natural resources management. The platform functionality will include: formatting the scenario environment for the management of natural resources, actions for introducing services that promote environmental sustainability based on specific scenario objectives, visual feedback for allowing students to understand their progress and the results of their actions in the game and Services for educators for overlooking student progress.