Open Virtual Worlds as pedagogical research tools: Learning from the Schome Park Programme

IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology

Volumn 302 AICT, Issue , 2009, Pages 263-272

  Twining, Peter ^a   Peachey, Anna ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dimensions of practice; Pedagogy; Research; Schome; Teen Second Life virtual world

Indexed keywords

E-LEARNING; RESEARCH; VIRTUAL REALITY;

DIMENSIONS OF PRACTICE; EDUCATIONAL SPACES; INITIAL PHASIS; PEDAGOGICAL RESEARCH; PEDAGOGY; SCHOME; SECOND LIFE; VIRTUAL WORLDS;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 84879514020     PISSN: 18684238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-03115-1_28     Document Type: Conference Paper

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