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Dalgarno, Barney; Lee, Mark J. W. – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2010
This article explores the potential learning benefits of three-dimensional (3-D) virtual learning environments (VLEs). Drawing on published research spanning two decades, it identifies a set of unique characteristics of 3-D VLEs, which includes aspects of their representational fidelity and aspects of the learner-computer interactivity they…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Knowledge Representation, Virtual Classrooms, Educational Research
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Dalgarno, Barney; Harper, Barry – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2004
This paper describes two empirical studies which investigated the importance for spatial learning of view control and object manipulation within 3D environments. A 3D virtual chemistry laboratory was used as the research instrument. Subjects, who were university undergraduate students (34 in the first study and 80 in the second study), undertook…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Active Learning, Science Laboratories