Instructional design best practices for second life: A case study from a college-level English course

Interactive Learning Environments

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 125-142

  Mayrath, M C ^a   Traphagan, T ^a   Heikes, E J ^a   Trivedi, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Education; Instructional design; Learning; Motivation; Multi user virtual environment; Second life; Virtual world

Indexed keywords

EID: 79751519549     PISSN: 10494820     EISSN: 17445191     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10494820802602568     Document Type: Article

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