Experiences in using a MUVE for enhancing motivation in engineering education

2010 IEEE Education Engineering Conference, EDUCON 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 775-782

  Sancho, Pilar ^a   Fernández Manjón, Baltasar ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Computer supportted collaborative learning; Problem based learning; Virtual laming environments

Indexed keywords

COLLABORATIVE LEARNING; COMMUNICATION SKILLS; DATA MANAGEMENT; E-LEARNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGY; MULTI-USER VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT; PROBLEM BASED LEARNING; PROBLEM-BASED; SOFT SKILLS; VISUAL FEATURE;

CURRICULA; EDUCATION COMPUTING; INTEROPERABILITY; MOTIVATION; STUDENTS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

ENGINEERING EDUCATION;

EID: 77954943227     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EDUCON.2010.5492498     Document Type: Conference Paper

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