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The possible applications of Distributed Virtual Environments to support Distance Education are being explored. A first experience with IRC (Internet Relay Chat) is described.
Funding for this project has been provided by EAFIT University and Colciencias-BID under grant number 150-97.
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Trefftz, H. et al. (1998). Distance Education and Distributed Virtual Environments. In: Verdejo, F., Davies, G. (eds) The Virtual Campus. IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35352-4_17
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