An educational community using collaborative virtual environments

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 2436, Issue , 2002, Pages 180-191

  Bouras, Christos ^a,b   Psaltoulis, Dimitrios ^a   Psaroudis, Christos ^a   Tsiatsos, Thrasyvoulos ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b University of Patras and Computer Technology Institute   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION; VIRTUAL REALITY; WEBSITES;

COLLABORATIVE VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT; E-LEARNING SERVICES; EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITY; FUNCTIONAL POINTS; VIRTUAL REALITY TECHNOLOGY;

E-LEARNING;

EID: 84937439176     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-45689-9_15     Document Type: Conference Paper

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