Studying the effectiveness of multi-user immersive environments for collaborative evaluation tasks

Computers and Education

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1361-1376

  Lorenzo, Carlos Miguel ^a   Ángel Sicilia, Miguel ^a   Sánchez, Salvador ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

Author keywords

Augmented reality; Convergent participation model; Distributed learning environment; e learning; Educational virtual world; Immersive education; LORI; Mixed reality; MMOL platform; Simulations; SNA; Socio computacional system; Virtual world

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS; IMMERSIVE; LORI; MIXED REALITY; MMOL PLATFORM; SIMULATIONS; SNA; SOCIO-COMPUTACIONAL SYSTEM; VIRTUAL WORLDS;

AUGMENTED REALITY; COMMUNICATION; COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION; EDUCATION COMPUTING; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); STUDENTS; TEACHING; VIRTUAL REALITY;

E-LEARNING;

EID: 84864219820     PISSN: 03601315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compedu.2012.06.002     Document Type: Article

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