%0 Book Section %B Web-Based Intelligent e - Learning Systems: Technologies and Applications %D 2006 %T An Integrated Platform for Educational Virtual Environments %A Christos Bouras %A Thrasivoulos Tsiatsos %A Eleftheria Giannaka %A Alexandros Panagopoulos %A Maria Nani %X

In this chapter, we present the design and implementation of an integrated platform for Educational Virtual Environments. This platform aims to support an educational community, synchronous online courses in multi-user three-dimensional (3D) environments, and the creation and access of asynchronous courses through a learning content management system. In order to offer synchronous courses, we have implemented a system called EVE-II, which supports stable event sharing for multi-user 3D places, easy creation of multi-user 3D places, H.323-based voice- over IP services fully integrated in a 3D space, as well as many concurrent 3D multi-user spaces.

%B Web-Based Intelligent e - Learning Systems: Technologies and Applications %I IDEA Group Publishing %P 291 - 320 %G eng %& XV