
Virtual Environments For Teaching And Learning
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
Will be published approx. on 9. October 2002
Book
Hardback
448 pages
978-981-238-167-5 (ISBN)
Description
There is a trend to offer courses by virtual means. This approach has definite advantages. For example, virtual programs target professionals who would otherwise have to leave their jobs to pursue the degree. An enormous proportion of universities are in the process of developing courses in a virtual environment.This book deals with virtual environments for teaching and learning. The chapters can be considered to be representative of the many approaches taken and the diversity of applications. The different perspectives and different solutions adopted are the result of intense research in various countries in the area of e-learning.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Singapore
Singapore
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 224 mm
Width: 173 mm
Thickness: 28 mm
Weight
771 gr
ISBN-13
978-981-238-167-5 (9789812381675)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Editor
Univ Of Brighton, Uk
Univ Of South Australia, Australia
Univ Of South Australia, Australia
Univ Of Bologna, Italy
Content
Contents: Use of Virtual Worlds to Teach the Sciences (B M Slator et al.); Traditional vs. Technology-Integrated Distance Education (Z Erlich et al.); Facilitators and Inhibitors of E-Learning (J Liu et al.); Developing and Accessing Adaptive Internet-Based Courses (R M Carro et al.); Towards Intelligent Media-Oriented E-Learning Environments (M Kayama & T Okamoto); An Intelligent Tutoring System for Student Guidance in Web-Based Courses (B Ozdemir & F N Alpaslan); Automatic Generation of Problems in Web-Based Tutors (M V Belmonte et al.); The Design of Internet-Based Interactive Learning Models Using Agents and Their Applications (T Ichimura et al.); Supporting Personalization in Distance Education Virtual Communities (E Gaudioso & J G Boticario); An Intelligent System for Capturing Presentation on Desktop Manipulations - Supporting for Video Contents Production (Y Nakamura et al.).