Interaction in Educational Collaborative Virtual Environments1
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The educational collaborative virtual environment supposes the active participation of students and teachers, interacting highly and aiming the knowledge exchange and creation of new abilities. The learning becomes a process that one assists the other to reach the objective, by changing experiences, dialogues, discussion of ideas, accomplishment of group, and individual activities that can be shared with the group, allowing the creation of knowledge based on the collective involvement. In this context, this paper describes and discusses the aspects and methods of interaction between students and teachers in the educational collaborative virtual environments and presents an application based on the Virtual Teacher Project.
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