The development of a virtual world for learning newtonian mechanics

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 1077, Issue , 1996, Pages 87-106

  Dede, Christopher J ^a   Salzman, Marilyn ^a   Bowen Loftin, R ^b  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

E-LEARNING; HEURISTIC METHODS; HYPERMEDIA SYSTEMS; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

ASSESSMENT METHODOLOGIES; EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENT; FORMATIVE EVALUATION; KINEMATICS AND DYNAMICS; MULTI-SENSORY LEARNING; MULTISENSORY PERCEPTIONS; NEWTONIAN MECHANICS; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MOTIONS;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 84876529346     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-61282-3_10     Document Type: Conference Paper

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