The Users' Avatars Nonverbal Interaction in Collaborative Virtual Environments for Learning
Adriana Pea Prez Negrn, R. M. D. A., Luis A. · InTech eBooks · 2012
Virtual Reality and Environments 70 Collaborative virtual environments for learningAdvances on technology, engineering, and instruction have enabled to diversify education and training support computer systems -see Table 1.Initially, the development of this kind of systems adopted the Computer Aided Instruction paradigm and was subsequently refined with Artificial Intelligence techniques implemented in the Computer Aided Intelligent Instruction paradigm.From the viewpoint of Artificial Intelligence, systems have been developed based on two rather divergent instructional approaches: Intelligent Tutoring Systems and Learning Environments (Aguilar, et al., 2010).Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) is probable the last of the paradigms emerged in the late nineteenth century.Koschmann (1996) referred to it as associated with instructional technology: "This developing paradigm, for which the acronym CSCL has been coined, focuses on the use of technology as a mediational tool within collaborative methods of instruction".