Second Life (SL) in Education: The intensions to use at university of Bahrain

Proceedings - 2013 4th International Conference on e-Learning Best Practices in Management, Design and Development of e-Courses: Standards of Excellence and Creativity, ECONF 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 205-215

  Ali, Hayat ^a   Ahmed, Ahmed Ali ^a   Tariq, Tayyeba Gul ^a   Safdar, Huma ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAHRAIN   (Bahrain)

Author keywords

Education; Intension to Use.; Second Life; TAM Model; Virtual Reality

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC INSTITUTIONS; COMPUTER SELF-EFFICACY; INTENSION TO USE; PERCEIVED EASE OF USE; PERCEIVED USEFULNESS; SECOND LIFE; TAM MODEL; TECHNOLOGY ACCEPTANCE MODEL;

CURRICULA; DESIGN; E-LEARNING; EDUCATION; EDUCATION COMPUTING; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; SURVEYS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

STUDENTS;

EID: 84897776596     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ECONF.2013.81     Document Type: Conference Paper

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