An immersive experience in the virtual 3D VirBELA environment for leadership development in undergraduate students during the COVID-19 quarantine

ABSTRACT

Leadership is an essential soft skill in any professional today. However, its development can be a significant challenge in traditional classes focused on disciplinary competencies. In this sense, the use of an immersive 3D virtual environment can be an advantage for leadership development, since it can facilitate communication and interaction between the participants;thanks to overcoming fear associated with face-to-face interaction. In this regard, this work exposes a leadership activity developed in Vir- BELA, explaining their designing, developing, and evaluating processes. The results obtained show that this activity under the participants' perception was facilitating the interaction of the participants among themselves and with the professor and improve the learning process in different ways. This process was carried out during quarantine due to Covid19. © 2020 Copyright for this paper by its authors.