An online virtual learning environment for higher education

Proceedings - 2011 3rd International Conferenceon Games and Virtual Worlds for Serious Applications, VS-Games 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 207-214

  Jaligama, Vikramaditya ^a   Liarokapis, Fotis ^a  

^a Institute for Clean Growth and Future Mobility   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Computer graphics; Education and learning; Serious games; Virtual environments

Indexed keywords

3D GRAPHICS; CLASSROOM ENVIRONMENT; DISTANCE LEARNING COURSE; HIGHER EDUCATION; LECTURE MATERIALS; SERIOUS GAMES; VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS; VIRTUAL LEARNING; VIRTUAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS; VIRTUAL WORLDS;

CURRICULA; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); TEACHING; VIRTUAL REALITY;

E-LEARNING;

EID: 80052136347     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/VS-GAMES.2011.44     Document Type: Conference Paper

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