Designing a collaborative learning activity in second life: An exploratory study in physics

Proceedings - 10th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, ICALT 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 210-214

  Vrellis, Ioannis ^a,b   Papachristos, Nikiforos M ^a   Bellou, Joan ^a   Avouris, Nikolaos ^b   Mikropoulos, Tassos A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Collaboration; Constructivism; Environment design; Instructional design; Multi user virtual environments; Physics; Second life

Indexed keywords

COLLABORATION; CONSTRUCTIVISM; ENVIRONMENT DESIGN; INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGNS; MULTI-USER VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT; SECOND LIFE;

DESIGN; VIRTUAL REALITY;

TEACHING;

EID: 78049299162     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICALT.2010.65     Document Type: Conference Paper

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