Geoworlds: Utilizing second life to develop advanced geosciences knowledge

Proceedings - 2nd IEEE International Conference on Digital Game and Intelligent Toy Enhanced Learning, DIGITEL 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 93-97

  Russell, Donna ^a   Davies, Molly ^a   Totten, Iris ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY   (United States)

^b KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3-D VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT; COMPLEX PROBLEMS; GEOSCIENCES; PROBLEM BASED LEARNING; PROBLEM SPACE; SECOND LIFE; URBAN STUDENTS; VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS;

EARTH SCIENCES; EDUCATION; GAME THEORY; VIRTUAL REALITY;

DESIGN;

EID: 67549117113     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/DIGITEL.2008.50     Document Type: Conference Paper

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