Integrating a Web3D interface into an E-learning platform

Web3D Symposium Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 83-92

  Di Cerbo, Francesco ^a   Dodero, Gabriella ^a   Papaleo, Laura ^b  

^a FREE UNIVERSITY OF BOZEN BOLZANO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

E learning applications; Web applications; Web3D technologies; X3D; X3DOM

Indexed keywords

WEB SERVICES; WEBSITES;

COLLABORATIVE LEARNING; CONSTRUCTIVIST LEARNING; E-LEARNING APPLICATION; E-LEARNING PLATFORMS; HIGH-PERFORMANCE 3D GRAPHICS; WEB APPLICATION; WEB3D TECHNOLOGIES; X3DOM;

E-LEARNING;

EID: 77956233497     PISSN: 15529886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1836049.1836062     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (32)

1. ABBASTISTA, F., CALEFATO, F., DE LUCIA, A., FRANCESE, R., LANUBILE, F., PASSERO, I., AND TORTORA, G. 2009. Virtual worlds: do we really need the third dimension to support collaborative learning? In Virtual Worlds for academic, organizational, and life-long learning - ViWo 2009 Workshop - ICWL.
2. ADOBE SYSTEM INC., 2010. Adobe flash player. http://www.adobe.com/ products/flashplayer/.
3. ANOHINA, A. 2005. Analysis of the terminology used in the field of virtual learning. Educational Technology & Society 8, 3, 91-102.
4. BEHR, J., ESCHLER, P., JUNG, Y., AND ZÖLLNER, M. 2009. X3dom: a dom-based html5/x3d integration model. In Web3D '09: Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on 3D Web Technology, ACM, New York, NY, USA, 127-135.
5. CRANE, D., AND MCCARTHY, P. 2008. Comet and Reverse Ajax: The Next-Generation Ajax 2.0, 1 ed. Apress, Oct.
6. DE LUCIA, A., FRANCESE, R., PASSERO, I., AND TORTORA, G. 2009. Development and evaluation of a virtual campus on second life: The case of SecondDMI. Computers & Education 52, 1, 220233.
7. DE LUCIA, A., FRANCESE, R., PASSERO, I., AND TORTORA, G. 2009. Development and evaluation of a system enhancing second life to support synchronous role-based collaborative learning. Software Practice Experience 39, 12, 1025-1054.
8. DI CERBO, F., DODERO, G., AND SUCCI, G. 2008. Social networking technologies for free-open source e-learning systems. In Open Source Development, Communities and Quality, IFIP 20th World Computer Congress, Working Group 2.3 on Open Source Software, Springer, B. Russo, E. Damiani, S. A. Hissam, B. Lundell, and G. Succi, Eds., vol. 275 of IFIP, 289-297.
9. DI CERBO, F., FORCHERI, P., DODERO, G., AND SUCCI, G. 2008. Tools for supporting hybrid learning strategies in open source software environments. In ICHL '08: Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Hybrid Learning and Education, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, 328-337.
10. DI CERBO, F., FORCHERI, P., DODERO, G., GIANUZZI, V., AND IERARDI, M. G. 2009. Hybrid learning experiences with a collaborative open source environment. In Hybrid Learning and Education First International Conference, ICHL 2009, Springer, J. Fong, R. Kwan, and F. L. Wang, Eds., Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 45-54.
11. DOUGIAMAS, M., AND TAYLOR, P. C. 2003. Moodle: Using learning communities to create an open source course management system. In Proceedings of World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications, vol. 3.
12. ERICKSON, T., HALVERSON, C., KELLOGG, W. A., LAFF, M., AND WOLF, T. 2002. Social translucence: designing social infrastructures that make collective activity visible. ACM Communications 45, 4, 40-44.
13. FONG, J., KWAN, R., AND WANG, F. L., Eds. 2008. Hybrid Learning and Education, First International Conference, ICHL 2008, Hong Kong, China, August 13-15, 2008, Proceedings, vol. 5169 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer.
14. FOWLER, M., 2004. Inversion of control containers and the dependency injection pattern, January.
15. GOOGLE INC, 2010. The o3d google api. http://code.google.com/intl/it/ apis/o3d/.
16. GOOGLE, 2010. Google closure javascript compiler. http://code.google.com/ closure/library/.
17. HAMZA-LUP, F., AND SOPIN, I. 2008. Haptics and extensible 3d in web-based environments for e-learning and simulation. In WEBIST 2008, Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies, Volume 1, INSTICC Press, J. Cordeiro, J. Filipe, and S. Hammoudi, Eds., 309-315.
18. HAMZA-LUP, F., DAVIS, L., AND ZEIDAN, O. 2006. Web-based 3d planning tool for radiation therapy treatment. In Web3D '06: Proceedings of the eleventh international conference on 3D web technology, ACM, New York, NY, USA, 159-162.
19. JAVA3D, 2010. The Java3D projects. https://java3d.dev.java.net/.
20. KRONOS GROUP, 2010. The WebGL web technology: Web graphics library. http://www.khronos.org/webgl/.
21. MONAHAN, T., MCARDLE, G., AND BERTOLOTTO, M. 2008. Virtual reality for collaborative e-learning. Computers & Education 50, 4 (May), 1339-1353.
22. MOODLE, 2010. The moodle e-learning platform. http://moodle.org.
23. OPENGL, 2010. The standard for embedded accelerated 3d graphics-specification. www.opengl.org/documentation/specs/version2.0/glspec20. pdf.
24. PFISTER, H.-R., SCHUCKMANN, C., BECK-WILSON, J., AND WESSNER, M. 1998. The metaphor of virtual rooms in the cooperative learning environment clear. In Cooperative Buildings. Integrating Information, Organization and Architecture, Springer, 107-113.
25. POPOVICI, D., GERVAL, J., HAMZA-LUP, F., POPOVICI, N., POLCEANU, M., AND ZAGAN, R. 2008. Learning distributed activities inside 3d virtual spaces. In 3rd International Conference on Virtual Learning (ICVL).
26. SANCHO, P., TORRENTE, J., AND FERNÁNDEZ-MANJÓN, B. 2009. Do multi-user virtual environments really enhance student's motivation in engineering education? In FIE'09: Proceedings of the 39th IEEE international conference on Frontiers in education conference, IEEE Press, Piscataway, NJ, USA, 744-749.
27. W3C HTML5, 2010. Html5: A vocabulary and associated apis for html and xhtml. http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/.
28. W3C, 2010. The websocket api. http://dev.w3.org/html5/websockets/.
29. WEB3D CONSORTIUM, 2010. The x3d working group. www.web3d.org/x3d.
30. WILSON, A. 1993. The promise of situated cognition. In An Update On Adult Learning Theory, Ed. By S.B. Merriam, Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, 71-79.
31. X3DOM PROJECT, 2010. The x3dom project portal. http://www.x3dom.org/.
32. ZHANG, Q., MARKSBURY, N., AND HEIM, S. 2010. A case study of communication and social interactions in learning in second life. In Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos, CA, USA, vol. 0, 1-9.