Uniting on-campus and distributed learners through media-rich synchronous tools: A national project

ASCILITE 2011 - The Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 150-155

  Bower, Matt ^a   Kennedy, Gregor E ^b   Dalgarno, Barney ^c   Lee, Mark J W ^c  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Affordances; Collaboration; Multimodal learning; Rich media; Synchronous learning

Indexed keywords

AFFORDANCES; COLLABORATION; MULTI-MODAL; RICH MEDIAS; SYNCHRONOUS LEARNING;

VIDEO CONFERENCING; VIRTUAL REALITY;

STUDENTS;

EID: 84870788053     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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