What are the learning affordances of 3-D virtual environments?

British Journal of Educational Technology

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 10-32

  Dalgarno, Barney ^b   Lee, Mark J W ^a,b  

^a CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3-D VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT; AFFORDANCES; COLLABORATIVE LEARNING; CONTEXTUALISATION; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING; INTERACTIVITY; ROADMAP; SPATIAL KNOWLEDGE; VIRTUAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS; VIRTUAL WORLDS;

KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING; VIRTUAL REALITY;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 73149108620     PISSN: 00071013     EISSN: 14678535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8535.2009.01038.x     Document Type: Article

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