EIKON: Teaching a high-school technology course with the aid of virtual reality

Education and Information Technologies

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 305-315

  Kameas, A ^a   Pintelas, P ^a   Mikropoulos, T A ^b   Katsikis, A ^b   Emvalotis, A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Agricultural technology; Case study; Hypermedia; Virtual environments; Virtual reality

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042613244     PISSN: 13602357     EISSN: 15737608     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1012005624624     Document Type: Article

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