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Building a system in virtual reality with LearningWorks

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The LearningWorks project began in 1994 and has slowly evolved, with its first major deployment in 1998 as the delivery environment for the new first course in Computing Science, M206, from the Open University, UK. The purpose of this short paper is to introduce the motivation and status of the project. We introduce the LearningBook user model and the programming framework, and then follow with a summary of a team-based curriculum in which students can work together to create simulations in a virtual reality world.

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              cover image ACM SIGCSE Bulletin
              ACM SIGCSE Bulletin  Volume 30, Issue 3
              Sept. 1998
              313 pages
              ISSN:0097-8418
              DOI:10.1145/290320
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                ITiCSE '98: Proceedings of the 6th annual conference on the teaching of computing and the 3rd annual conference on Integrating technology into computer science education: Changing the delivery of computer science education
                August 1998
                315 pages
                ISBN:1581130007
                DOI:10.1145/282991

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