Second life as a medium for lecturing in college courses

Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Cliburn, Daniel C ^a   Gross, Jeffrey L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE PACIFIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC INSTITUTIONS; COLLEGE COURSE; COMPARISON GROUPS; EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCES; EDUCATIONAL SETTINGS; LECTURE MATERIALS; PILOT STUDIES; RESEARCH EFFORTS; SECOND LIVES; VIRTUAL WORLDS;

DISTANCE EDUCATION;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 63349085525     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2009.379     Document Type: Conference Paper

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