Use of media-rich real-time collaboration tools for learning and teaching in Australian and New Zealand universities

ASCILITE 2012 - Annual conference of the Australian Society for Computers in Tertiary Education

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Bower, Matt ^a   Kennedy, Gregor E ^b   Dalgarno, Barney ^c   Lee, Mark J W ^c   Kenney, Jacqueline ^a   De Barba, Paula ^b  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Rich media; Synchronous; Video conferencing; Virtual worlds; Web conferencing

Indexed keywords

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); TEACHING; VIRTUAL REALITY;

LEARNING AND TEACHINGS; REAL-TIME COLLABORATION; RICH MEDIAS; SINGLE PRODUCT; SYNCHRONOUS; UPWARD TREND; VIRTUAL WORLDS; WEB CONFERENCING;

VIDEO CONFERENCING;

EID: 84912535480     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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