Integrating virtual worlds & virtual learning environments for online education

1st International IEEE Consumer Electronic Society's Games Innovation Conference, ICE-GiC 09

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 54-63

  Callaghan, M J ^a   McCusker, K ^a   Losada, J Lopez ^a   Harkin, J G ^a   Wilson, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Engineering education; Serious games; Virtual learning environments; Virtual worlds

Indexed keywords

EDUCATIONAL CONTEXT; IMMERSIVE; IMMERSIVE ENVIRONMENT; INTERACTIVE SIMULATIONS; LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS; ON-LINE EDUCATION; SCRIPTING TOOLS; SECOND LIFE; SERIOUS GAMES; TEACHING AND LEARNING; USER EXPERIENCE; VIRTUAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS; VIRTUAL WORLDS; WORLD MODELING;

DISTANCE EDUCATION; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; TEACHING; THREE DIMENSIONAL; VIRTUAL REALITY;

ENGINEERING EDUCATION;

EID: 74349092011     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICEGIC.2009.5293576     Document Type: Conference Paper

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