Extending the use of virtual worlds as an educational platform network island: An advanced learning environment for teaching internet routing algorithms

CSEDU 2011 - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Computer Supported Education

Volumn 1, Issue , 2011, Pages 279-284

  Mccaffery, John ^a   Miller, Alan ^a   Allison, Colin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Education; Graph theory; Interactive; MRM; Multi user virtual environment; MUVE; Opensim; Virtual world

Indexed keywords

INTERACTIVE; MRM; MULTI-USER VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT; MUVE; OPENSIM; VIRTUAL WORLDS;

EDUCATION; GRAPH THEORY; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; INTERNET; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; ROUTERS; ROUTING ALGORITHMS; SOFTWARE DESIGN; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; USER INTERFACES; VISUALIZATION;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 80053000492     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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