Authorship/Authoring Possibilities in Three Dimensional Virtual Worlds in Education: The State of Art from a Systematic Review

Three-dimensional virtual worlds have been studied by many researchers around the world, including in educational contexts. A range of possibilities have emerged from this type of environment, such as improvements in distance education and other educational technologies. But there are some problems related to the use of this environment, such as complex authorship tools, which need to be discussed and considered to create situations that encourage use. The goal of this study was to find, analyze, and discuss the studies that focused on these environments, with authorship as the main theme. With this in mind, we conducted a systematic review of published articles in six repositories to extract studies for subsequent analysis using text mining and graph analysis software.