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Collaborative Learning in Virtual Reality Environments
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- Dwight Toavs & Steve Knode, Information Resources Management College (IRMC)
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| Virtual reality (VR) is emerging as a technology for creating and exploring alternative on-line learning environments. VR technologies now allow developing and deploying easy-to-use virtual reality worlds running on desktop personal computers. More recently, some virtual reality platforms have incorporated multi-user and collaboration features; a few of these environments accommodate intelligent agents that can provide information and interaction. These features suggest some intriguing possibilities for the next generation of visually-rich, collaborative, and interactive on-line learning environments.
This presentation discusses and demonstrates an ongoing experimental educational endeavor, the CIO World, at the Information Resources Management College, National Defense University. CIO World, created on the ActiveWorlds platform, is a collaborative and interactive environment for learning about public policy and the history of information resources management. The CIO World will be demonstrated, and discussions will encompass issues and challenges of world building, intelligent agents, and academic/intellectual content within virtual worlds. |
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