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The use of Collaborative Virtual Environments in e-learning is one of the most promising uses of the virtual reality technology. While a lot of research has been done in the area of collaborative virtual environments corresponding to the sharing of events, very little research has been done on specific services and functionality. However both the requirements and the kind of the offered services affect significantly the design of a system. In this paper we present an Educational Community to support e-learning services using Collaborative Virtual Environments from both the technical and functional point of view.
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Bouras, C., Psaltoulis, D., Psaroudis, C., Tsiatsos, T. (2002). An Educational Community Using Collaborative Virtual Environments. In: Fong, J., Cheung, C.T., Leong, H.V., Li, Q. (eds) Advances in Web-Based Learning. ICWL 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2436. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45689-9_15
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