VClass-3D*: a multimedia educational collaboration platform with 3D virtual workspace support

Authors:
Athanasios G. Malamos;Georgios Mamakis;Paraskevi Sympa;Michael Tsirakis;Georgios Piperidis;John Karakechagias;Konstantinos Mavraganis;Yannis Kaliakatsos
Affiliations:
Dept of Applied Informatics and Multimedia, Technological Educational Institue of Crete, Estavromenos, Herakleion Crete, Greece;Dept of Applied Informatics and Multimedia, Technological Educational Institue of Crete, Estavromenos, Herakleion Crete, Greece;Dept of Applied Informatics and Multimedia, Technological Educational Institue of Crete, Estavromenos, Herakleion Crete, Greece;Dept of Applied Informatics and Multimedia, Technological Educational Institue of Crete, Estavromenos, Herakleion Crete, Greece;Dept of Applied Informatics and Multimedia, Technological Educational Institue of Crete, Estavromenos, Herakleion Crete, Greece;Dept of Applied Informatics and Multimedia, Technological Educational Institue of Crete, Estavromenos, Herakleion Crete, Greece;Dept of Applied Informatics and Multimedia, Technological Educational Institue of Crete, Estavromenos, Herakleion Crete, Greece;Dept of Electronics, Technological Educational Institue of Crete, Estavromenos, Herakleion Crete, Greece
Venue:
WBE'06 Proceedings of the 5th IASTED international conference on Web-based education
Year:
2006

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Abstract

Education has always been the grounds of experiments especially when regarding new technologies as it stands for the place of birth of many of the technological evolution. Still, strange as it may sound, very few from the technological advances find real application in educational society. In this paper, we are presenting an educational platform based on collaborative virtual workspaces, featuring advanced multimedia capabilities. The key feature to this platform is that it targets on assisted learning making use of interactive 3D technologies, in order to accommodate the needs of primary school education.