What are the learning affordances of 3-D virtual environments? Dalgarno & Lee (2010)
....five key affordances of learning in a virtual world, and a proposed model of learning.
Note: "affordance" is defined by Gibson (1979), who used it to refer to "the functional properties that determine the possible utility of an object or environment"
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