Level of abstraction and feelings of presence in virtual space: Business English negotiation in Open Wonderland

Computers and Education

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 2126-2134

  Chen, Judy F ^a   Warden, Clyde A ^b   Wen Shung Tai, David ^c   Chen, Farn Shing ^d   Chao, Chich Yang ^d  

^a OVERSEAS CHINESE UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c HUNGKUANG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d NATIONAL CHANGHUA UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Computer mediated communication; Cooperative collaborative learning; Distance education and telelearning; Simulations; Virtual reality

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACT LEVELS; ABSTRACT REPRESENTATION; ABSTRACTION LEVEL; BUSINESS NEGOTIATIONS; COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION; COOPERATIVE/COLLABORATIVE LEARNING; DISTANCE EDUCATION AND TELELEARNING; LEARNING GOALS; LEARNING OBJECTIVES; LEVEL OF ABSTRACTION; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; PHYSICAL WORLD; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; ROLE PLAYING; SELF-DIRECTED LEARNING; SIMULATIONS; VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS; VIRTUAL SPACES; VISUAL METAPHOR;

ABSTRACTING; DISTANCE EDUCATION; OPEN SYSTEMS; STUDENTS; TEACHING;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 79959703541     PISSN: 03601315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compedu.2011.05.017     Document Type: Article

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