Pubbl/distr/stampa	Singapore ; ; River Edge, NJ, : World Scientific, c2002
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (448 p.)
Disciplina	371.358
Altri autori (Persone)	JainL. C
Collana	Series on innovative intelligence
Soggetto topico	Distance education - Computer-assisted instruction Internet in education
ISBN	1-281-92922-0 9786611929220 981-277-657-5
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Contents ; Foreword ; Chapter 1 Use of Virtual Worlds to Teach the Sciences ; 1. Introduction ; 2. Project overviews ; 3. Project details ; 3.1. Geology Explorer ; 3.2. The virtual cell ; 3.3. The ProgrammingLand MOOseum of computer science ; 3.4. The virtual archeologist 3.4.1. Background: the Like-a-Fishhook story 3.5. The Blackwood game ; 3.5.1. Time frame ; 3.5.2. The impact of history ; 3.5.3. The economic simulation ; 3.5.4. Software agents ; 3.5.5. Player roles ; 3.5.6. Neighborhoods ; 4. Assessment studies ; 5. Assessment results 5.1. Geology Explorer experiment results 5.2. Virtual cell experiment results ; 6. Related work ; 7. Conclusions ; Acknowledgments ; References ; Chapter 2 Traditional vs. Technology-Integrated Distance Education ; 1. Introduction ; 2. Traditional distance education at the OUI 3. State-of-the-art technologies at the OUI 3.1. Ofek - broadband communication for interactive distance education ; 3.2. The courseware and multimedia development unit ; 3.3. Telem - computer mediated distance education 3.3.1. Characteristics of the computerized teaching/learning environment 3.3.2. The course sites ; 4. Case studies: two experiments ; 4.1. An innovative distance-learning computer applications course ; 4.1.1. Course description ; 4.1.2. Teaching aids incorporated into the course 4.1.3. The courseware
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