Elearn: Towards a Collaborative Educational Virtual Environment

Elearn: Towards a Collaborative Educational Virtual Environment

The evolving growth in networking and telecommunication technologies leads to their enhanced usage in many and different aspects of human activity. One of the technologies that shows great interest is Collaborative Virtual Environments (CVEs), which may be used in various applications, such as tele-education. This paper presents, analyzes and evaluates the basic elements of Elearn, a Collaborat...

ELearn: A collaborative educational virtual environment

Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs) that support collaboration is one of the new technologies that show great interest, concerning the innovative methods that gain ground in every aspect of educational procedure. In this paper, we present ELearn, a collaborative virtual learning environment for teaching e-commerce that has been developed using Active Worlds. We have constructed a virtual schoo...

Virtual Cities as a Collaborative Educational Environment

The CIVITAS (Virtual Cities with Technologies for Learning and Simulating) project presents a research, teaching and extension approach directed to the construction of cities imagined by students in the first years of elementary school, with an emphasis to the fourth grade. The teacher ventures on a deviation from the official curriculum proposed to reflect upon the invention of cities along wi...

A Collaborative e-Science Architecture towards a Virtual Research Environment

This paper presents a novel Collaborative e-Science Architecture (CeSA) to address two challenging issues in e-Science that have arisen from the management of heterogeneous distributed environments. By combining the capabilities of peer-to-peer and Grid computing, the architecture provides an environment for scientific collaborations within distributed, loosely coupled research communities and ...

Collaborative E-Learning: Towards Designing an Innovative Architecture for an Educational Virtual Environment