01410nas a2200145   4500008004100000245005600041210005500097260000900152300001500161520091200176100002101088700002701109700001901136856010901155       2001                        eng d00ae-Learning through Distributed Virtual Environments0 aeLearning through Distributed Virtual Environments  cJuly  a 175 - 1993 ae-learning is one of the emerging needs of the information age. Access to education
is going to become crucial for the success of our information society, and therefore
a lot of potential is seen in distance learning and distributed virtual environments. The
communicative character of the distributed virtual environments would allow students and
staff to meet in social shared spaces and engage in on-line real-time seminars and tutorials.
Such technologies may mitigate some of the problems of isolation that distance learning
brings. This paper presents our work in multi-user distributed virtual environments which
are designed and implemented for educational uses in the bounds of the VES project.
Furthermore, it presents our proposal for the extensions and reconstruction of the current
system in order to create a more efficient system, which can be characterized as a learning
virtual environment.1 aBouras, Christos1 aTsiatsos, Thrasivoulos1 aPhilopoulos, A  uhttp://telematics.upatras.gr/telematics/publications/e-learning-through-distributed-virtual-environments