Designing, Building, and Assessing a Virtual World for Science Education

14th International Conference on Computers and Their Applications 1999, CATA 1999

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages 22-25

  Saini Eidukat, Bernhardt ^a   Schwert, Donald P ^a   Slator, Brian M ^b  

^a NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b North Dakota State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Artificial Intelligence; Computer Simulation; Computer based Educational Games; Distance Education; Multimedia Applications

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER GAMES; E-LEARNING; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; SOFTWARE AGENTS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

COMPUTER-BASED EDUCATIONAL GAME; DISTANCE-LEARNING; EDUCATIONAL GAME; GOAL-ORIENTED; INTERNET BROWSERS; LEARNING SIMULATION; MULTIMEDIA APPLICATIONS; ROLE-BASED; SCIENCE EDUCATION; VIRTUAL WORLDS;

STUDENTS;

EID: 85131912559     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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