Being there: An empirical look at learning outcomes in 3D virtual worlds

15th Americas Conference on Information Systems 2009, AMCIS 2009

Volumn 9, Issue , 2009, Pages 6387-6397

  Hassell, Martin ^a   Goyal, Sandeep ^a   Limayem, Moez ^a   Boughzala, Imed ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

^b TELECOM SUDPARIS   (France)

Author keywords

Copresence; Flow; Presence; Virtual learning; Virtual worlds

Indexed keywords

CO-PRESENCE; FLOW; PRESENCE; VIRTUAL LEARNING; VIRTUAL WORLDS;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

E-LEARNING;

EID: 84870314257     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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