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Title:
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THE UNIQUE FEATURES OF EDUCATIONAL VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS |
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Author(s):
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Tassos A. Mikropoulos , Joan Bellou |
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ISBN:
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972-8924-16-X |
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Editors:
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Pedro Isaías, Maggie McPherson and Frank Bannister |
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Year:
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2006 |
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Edition:
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1 |
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Keywords:
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Virtual Reality, Educational Virtual Environments, learning outcomes, virtual reality features, virtual laser |
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Type:
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Full Paper |
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First Page:
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122 |
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Last Page:
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128 |
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Language:
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English |
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Full Contents:
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Paper Abstract:
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Designers and evaluators of Educational Virtual Environments (EVEs) often exploit the technological characteristics of
Virtual Reality (VR) in order to develop and evaluate educational applications. We believe that the essential contribution
of VR, as any Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) based learning environment to the learning process,
comes through the pedagogical exploitation and certain features that arise from the technological characteristics. Based
on the characteristics of three dimensional spatial representations, multisensory channels for user interaction, immersion,
and intuitive interaction through natural manipulations in real time, we compile some features of the EVEs that contribute
to learning outcomes. These features are complete at will navigation, first person point of view, natural semantics, size,
transduction, reification, autonomy and presence. Based on empirical data from our previous EVEs and a virtual laser
laboratory, we believe that these features may contribute to positive learning outcomes combined together with other
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