Supporting asynchronous communication in an agent-based virtual classroom

International Journal of Continuing Engineering Education and Life-Long Learning

Volumn 12, Issue 5-6, 2002, Pages 433-447

  Matsuura, Kenji ^a   Ogata, Hiroaki ^b   Yano, Yoneo ^b  

^a KNOWLEDGE MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Asynchronous communication; CSCL; Software agent; Video on demand; Virtual classroom; Web based instruction

Indexed keywords

CLIENT SERVER COMPUTER SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE AGENTS; VIDEO ON DEMAND; VIRTUAL REALITY; WORLD WIDE WEB;

ASYNCHRONOUS COMMUNICATION; ASYNCHRONOUS VIRTUAL CLASSROOM; WEB BASED INSTRUCTION;

COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION;

EID: 0036939766     PISSN: 09574344     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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