Exploitation of Croquet CVE Platform for supporting Collaborative e-Learning Environments

Thrasyvoulos Tsiatsos (1) , Andreas Konstantinidis (1)

1 Department of Informatics

This paper reviews the features of five 3 dimensional networked virtual environments which support collaborative learning applications, through the comparison of the tools and services they offer. Following that, we justify our choice of platform, which is the Croquet platform, and discuss design and implementation issues. Finally we present the results of the evaluation process of the virtual environment we developed, which consisted of the participation of twelve postgraduate students who completed questionnaires regarding its applicability in education.

Keywords: collaborative virtual environments (CVE); open source; tele-learning; Croquet

Domains: Technology for Human Learning

Thrasyvoulos Tsiatsos, Andreas Konstantinidis. Exploitation of Croquet CVE Platform for supporting Collaborative e-Learning Environments. Conference ICL2007, September 26 -28, 2007, 2007, Villach, Austria. 8 p. ⟨hal-00197241⟩