Scaffolding -Design issues in single & collaborative virtual environments for social skills learning

Proceedings of the 8th Eurographics Workshop on Virtual Environments, EGVE 2002

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 81-91

  Kerr, Steven J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

E-LEARNING; SCAFFOLDS;

ASPERGER SYNDROMES; COLLABORATIVE ENVIRONMENTS; COLLABORATIVE VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT; DESIGN ISSUES; LEARNING OBJECTIVES; SCAFFOLDING DESIGNS; SINGLE USERS; SKILL LEARNING; SOCIAL SKILLS;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 84856318740     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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