Multi-user virtual environments for teaching and learning
Publication information:
E. Dieterle and J. Clarke. 2007. “Multi-User Virtual Environments for Teaching and Learning”. M. Pagani (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Multimedia Technology and Networking (2nd Ed)
Abstract
Although MUVEs are commonplace to gamers, the affordances of this interface are rarely utilized for substantive teaching and learning. In this article we discuss how MUVEs can be used to support the situated and distributed nature of cognition within an immersive, psychosocial context, using River City as an informative case study.