A role-playing virtual world for web-based application courses

Computers and Education

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1081-1096

  Depradine, Colin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

Author keywords

Applications in subject areas; Simulations

Indexed keywords

CURRICULA; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

APPLICATIONS IN SUBJECT AREAS; INFORMATION COMMUNICATION AND TECHNOLOGY (ICT);

WEB SERVICES;

EID: 34548029512     PISSN: 03601315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compedu.2006.01.002     Document Type: Article

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