Students' attitudes towards educational virtual environments

Education and Information Technologies

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 137-148

  Mikropoulos, Tassos A ^a   Chalkidis, Anthimos ^a   Katsikis, Apostolos ^a   Emvalotis, Anastassios ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Case studies; Computer assisted instruction (CAI); Higher education; Human computer interface (HCI); Virtual reality

Indexed keywords

EID: 54649084650     PISSN: 13602357     EISSN: 15737608     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1009687025419     Document Type: Article

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