V-Learning: Distance education in the 21st century through 3D virtual learning environments

V-Learning: Distance Education in the 21st Century Through 3D Virtual Learning Environments

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1-182

  Annetta, Leonard A ^a   Folta, Elizabeth ^a   Klesath, Marta ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-3627-8     Document Type: Book

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