• DocumentCode
    3385472
  • Title

    Architectures supporting e-learning through collaborative virtual environments: the case of INVITE

  • Author

    Bouras, Ch ; Hornig, G. ; Triantafillou, V. ; Tsiatsos, Th.

  • Author_Institution
    Comput. Technol. Inst., Patras, Greece
  • fYear
    2001
  • fDate
    2001
  • Firstpage
    13
  • Lastpage
    16
  • Abstract
    The growing need for communication, visualization and organization technologies in the field of e-learning environments has led to the application of virtual reality and the use of collaborative virtual environments. The paper presents a system architecture to support such environments, defined by user needs and using state of the art technologies
  • Keywords
    groupware; intelligent tutoring systems; teaching; virtual reality; INVITE; Intelligent Distributed Virtual Training Environment; collaborative virtual environments; e-learning; instructional management systems; state of the art technologies; synchronous tele-learning; system architecture; user needs; virtual reality; Avatars; Collaboration; Collaborative work; Computer architecture; Content management; Electronic learning; Intelligent agent; Real time systems; Virtual environment; Visualization;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Advanced Learning Technologies, 2001. Proceedings. IEEE International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Madison, WI
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7695-1013-2
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICALT.2001.943842
  • Filename
    943842