A Virtual Environment on the Web to Promote Social Interaction and Collaborative Work

DeskTOP, a System based on Virtual Spaces to Support and to Promote Collaborative Learning

provides a coordination mechanism to help to maintain an interaction order among the participants and to make it more efficient. The collaborative virtual environments have become a good alternative to construct collaborative learning systems. In this paper we present DeskTOP, a collaborative virtual environment implemented on the Web to support and to promote collaborative learning in universi...

Investigating Dynamic Writing Assessment in a Web 2.0 Asynchronous Collaborative Computer-Mediated Context

This study aims at investigating the effect of dynamic assessment (DA) on L2 writing achievement if applied via blogging as a Web 2.0 tool, as well as examining which pattern of interaction is more conducive to learning in such an environment. The results of the study indicate that using weblogs to provide mediation contributes to the enhancement of the overall writing performance, vocabulary a...

Designing Collaborative Virtual Environments Based on Real Spaces to Promote Community Interaction

A Collaborative Virtual Environment (CVE) is a metaphor of a real environment, but it is not a copy of it. Members of a community may not know each other in real life. The design of CVE in which members are known and there is interaction in a real space is different to the traditional design of CVE. It should consider the real location of each resource, appropriated awareness and communication ...

A Customizable Collaborative Virtual Environment on the Web

Collaborative Virtual Environments (CVE) support the collaboration, communication and social interaction among users in virtual spaces. In this paper we present a customizable CVE implemented on top of the Web that allows for the creation of various interactive environments. This CVE is designed mainly from the perspective of the desk, rooms and hall metaphors. The architecture of our CVE is ba...

Virtual education contents of medical universities during the COVID-19 outbreak An opportunity to promote universities on the web