Three-dimensional (3D) virtual worlds have been used for more than a decade in higher education for teaching and learning. Since the 1980s, academics began using virtual worlds as an exciting and innovative new technology to provide their students with new learning experiences that were difficult to provide any other way. But since that time, virtual worlds have failed to maintain their popular...

This chapter provides an overview of second language learning and an approach on how wireless collaborative virtual reality can contribute to resolving important pedagogical challenges. Second language learning provides an exceptional opportunity to employ mobility and multimedia in the context of justin-time-learning in formal learning situations, or ubiquitous and lifelong learning in more in...

In this paper, Grid technologies are introduced to build e-Learning environments for engineering education. Service-oriented Grids open new fields of applications, the Learning Grids. The learning services concept based on a learning model and their deployment through Grid technologies are excellent means to integrate virtual laboratories into e-Learning environments for engineering education. ...

a r t i c l e i n f o Advances in network infrastructure and computing technology have made 3D virtual environment increasingly popular and less costly. Many education institutions have shown interests in its application in teaching and learning activities. In this project, we evaluated how the 3D virtual environment can facilitate students in achieving learning outcomes. To provide students wi...

U-Learning has emerged with the development of UbiComp. In the precomputer era, people can only learn from surrounding environment or other people. Given a subject, it is difficult to find out the concerning learning contents in the real environment. In the era of CAI and M-Learning, people can choice to learn in the virtual world and rapidly find out the related virtual learning contents. But ...