A conference paper by Dayang Nurulhidayati binti Haji Mohd Sani, Dr. Mohd Saiful Omar and Dr. Au Thien Wan titled 'Virtual Campus: A Case Study of Development using Open Sources Software' was awarded session best paper in the International Conference on Image Processing, Production and Computer Science (ICIPCS 2016) which was held in London, United Kingdom.

The paper was presented in the conference by Dr. Mohd Saiful Omar, according to a press release from Universiti Teknologi Brunei (UTB).

The conference was organised by the Universal Researchers in Engineers.

A role-playing virtual campus was proposed in this paper for UTB to provide an additional route to enhance the learning experience of students.

The study adopted in their proposal used the Massive Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games approach in which open sources software, OpenSimulator, was used as the development platform for Virtual World (VW) and 3D Virtual Learning Environment (3DVLE).

SLOODLE was used as the Learning Management System (LMS) for the VW. The main viewer used was the Firestorm viewer.

The prototype developed focused at Phase 2 section of the campus as the study area and was tested on a group of existing undergraduate students.

The responses and feedback to this preliminary novel approach was very encouraging and the acceptance of Virtual Reality based learning is positive.

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