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ICALT
2010
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Designing a Collaborative Learning Activity in Second Life - An Exploratory Study in Physics
Multi-user virtual environments (MUVEs) seem to have great potential in education. Current educational uses of MUVEs seem to exploit them more as group interaction platforms and le...
Ioannis Vrellis, Nikiforos M. Papachristos, Joan B...
ICALT
2006
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Assessing the Effectiveness of Virtual Reality Technology as part of an Authentic Learning Environment
Application of Virtual Reality (VR) in training and education seems to give excellent promise in providing an alternative “real life” environment in situations where it is imp...
Ros A. Yahaya
PRESENCE
2006
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13 years 8 months ago
The Place Probe: Exploring a Sense of Place in Real and Virtual Environments
This paper describes the design, application, and refinement of a qualitative tool designed to study sense of place. The Place Probe incorporates a range of stimuli and techniques...
David Benyon, Michael Smyth, Shaleph O'Neill, Rod ...
CCE
2008
13 years 8 months ago
Object-oriented modelling of virtual-labs for education in chemical process control
Easy Java Simulations (Ejs) and Sysquake are two software tools specifically intended for implementation of virtual-labs. They allow easy definition of the virtuallab view (i.e., ...
Carla Martin-Villalba, Alfonso Urquia, Sebasti&aac...
SIGCSE
2008
ACM
88views Education» more  SIGCSE 2008»
13 years 8 months ago
Programming by choice: urban youth learning programming with scratch
This paper describes Scratch, a visual, block-based programming language designed to facilitate media manipulation for novice programmers. We report on the Scratch programming exp...
John H. Maloney, Kylie A. Peppler, Yasmin B. Kafai...