Enabling social dimensions of learning through a persistent, unified, massively multi-user, and self-organizing virtual environment

Proceedings - Second International Conference on Creating, Connecting and Collaborating Through Computing

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 166-172

  Lombardi, Julian ^a   McCahill, Mark P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOSTERS DYNAMIC GROUP; LEARNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS (LMSS); MULTI-USERS; SELF-ORGANIZING; VIRTUAL ENVIRONMNET;

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; ECOSYSTEMS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; USER INTERFACES; VIRTUAL REALITY;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 11244270376     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/C5.2004.1314386     Document Type: Conference Paper

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