Exploring Tangible and Virtual Learning Communities in Virtual Learning Worlds

Chi-Syan Lin; Yi-Mei Lin; Mark van‘t Hooft; C. Candace Chou; Jung-Tsan Ma; Yi-Rung Chen

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2008 (Jun 30, 2008) pp. 1081–1088

The purpose of this study is to investigate aspects of virtual learning communities of practice in networked learning environments. An inhabited virtual learning world, The Best Digital Village, will be implemented following the proposed...

Topics: Virtual Environments

The Design of a 3D Virtual Game for Chinese as a Second Language (CSL) Practices

Yi-Mei Lin; Chi-Syan Lin; Li-Hung Lin; Hsueh-Yu Chen; Jung-Tsan Ma; Ren Chang

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2009 (Jun 22, 2009) pp. 1255–1260

As China plays a more influential role in the global politics and economy, Chinese is likely to become an international lingua franca in the near future. Although the importance of learning Chinese seems to be well aware of, learning it is...