Towards a theoretical "cybernetic" framework: Discovering the pedagogical value of the virtual world "second life"

Software Development Techniques for Constructive Information Systems Design

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 128-181

  Nikolaos, Pellas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

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