Building a Babel Tower in 21st Century: Supporting Cross-Cultural Collaboration and Learning in a 3D CVE Spanning Three Continents

Author

Prasolova-Forland, Ekaternia ; Chang, Teng-Wen

Author_Institution

Norwegian Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Trondheim

fYear

2007

fDate

18-20 July 2007

Firstpage

295

Lastpage

299

Abstract

The project described in this paper involved students across three cooperating institutions, on three different continents in different time zones, building a "babel tower" in a 3D collaborative virtual environment (CVE). Much information and communication technology (ICT) work today involves international collaboration. This requires cross-cultural understandings with one\´s co-collaborators. There are few opportunities for this to occur in a pedagogical setting. Therefore, this paper outlines a pedagogically-oriented case study of the use of a 3D CVE as a cross-cultural collaborative classroom.

Keywords

computer aided instruction; groupware; virtual reality; 3D collaborative virtual environment; 3D learning; Babel tower; cooperating institutions; cross-cultural collaboration; information-communication technology; international collaboration; pedagogically-oriented case study; Buildings; Collaborative tools; Collaborative work; Communications technology; Continents; Cultural differences; International collaboration; Libraries; Poles and towers; Virtual environment;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Advanced Learning Technologies, 2007. ICALT 2007. Seventh IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Niigata

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2916-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICALT.2007.86

Filename

4281015