TY - GEN
T1 - Distributed virtual environment realizing collaborative environmental education
AU - Okada, Masaya
AU - Tarumi, Hiroyuki
AU - Yoshimura, Tetsuhiko
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors wish to express gratitude to Professor Toru Ishida of Kyoto University for his valuable advices. This study was partly supported by a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) from Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (No. 11460152).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2000 ACM.
PY - 2001/3/1
Y1 - 2001/3/1
N2 - We have developed a support system for collaborative learning in environmental education by using distributed virtual environment accessible from real and virtual worlds. With this system, learners in the real world and experts in a virtual world can communicate with each other while sharing not only a 3D virtual world implemented with VRML, but learners' achievements and experts' knowledge. It also realizes databases of real experiences, education supported by valuable knowledge given by experts from all over the world, and virtual tours to inaccessible natural environment. Furthermore, the system is expected to raise consciousness of environmental protection by providing users with knowledge and information on the environment accumulated in the learning process. The system makes all these functions possible, which have been difficult to realize with conventional environmental education.
AB - We have developed a support system for collaborative learning in environmental education by using distributed virtual environment accessible from real and virtual worlds. With this system, learners in the real world and experts in a virtual world can communicate with each other while sharing not only a 3D virtual world implemented with VRML, but learners' achievements and experts' knowledge. It also realizes databases of real experiences, education supported by valuable knowledge given by experts from all over the world, and virtual tours to inaccessible natural environment. Furthermore, the system is expected to raise consciousness of environmental protection by providing users with knowledge and information on the environment accumulated in the learning process. The system makes all these functions possible, which have been difficult to realize with conventional environmental education.
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U2 - 10.1145/372202.372281
DO - 10.1145/372202.372281
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85005972078
SN - 1581132875
SN - 9781581132878
T3 - Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
SP - 83
EP - 88
BT - Proceedings of the 2001 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, SAC 2001
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
T2 - 2001 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, SAC 2001
Y2 - 11 March 2001 through 14 March 2001
ER -
