Using second life in programming's communities of practice

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5411 LNCS, Issue , 2008, Pages 99-106

  Esteves, Micaela ^a   Antunes, Ricardo ^a   Fonseca, Benjamim ^b   Morgado, Leonel ^c   Martins, Paulo ^c  

^a POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE OF LEIRIA   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRÁS OS MONTES AND ALTO DOURO   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TRÁS OS MONTES AND ALTO DOURO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Collaboration; Communities of practice; Programming learning; Second Life; Virtual worlds

Indexed keywords

COLLABORATION; COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE; PROGRAMMING LEARNING; SECOND LIFE; VIRTUAL WORLDS;

GROUPWARE; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; STUDENTS; TEACHING; VIRTUAL REALITY;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING;

EID: 71049141795     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-92831-7_9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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