Collaborative virtual environments for supporting learning communities: An experience of use

Proceedings of the International ACM SIGGROUP Conference on Supporting Group Work

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 58-67

  Prasolova Førland, Ekaterina ^a   Divitini, Monica ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Collaborative virtual environments; Communities; Learning; Social awareness

Indexed keywords

AVATARS; COLLABORATIVE VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS; LEARNING COMMUNITIES; SOCIAL AWARENESS;

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INTEGRATION; INTERNET; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MAPPING; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SOCIAL ASPECTS;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 18744401903     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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