title: Interaction in collaborative educational virtual environments.
abstract: The collaborative educational virtual environment supposes the active participation of students and teachers, interacting highly and aiming at knowledge exchange and creation of new abilities. The learning becomes a process in which one assists the other to reach the objective, by exchanging experiences, dialogues, discussion of ideas, accomplishments of the group, and individual activities that can be shared with the group, allowing the creation of knowledge based on collective involvement. In this context, this paper describes and discusses the aspects and methods of interaction between students and teachers in collaborative educational virtual environments and presents an application based on the Virtual Teacher Project.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Engenharia de Computação e Sistemas Digitais, Escola Politécnica da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil. tori@poli.usp.br
authors.forename: Mario M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Kubo
authors.forename: Romero
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Tori
authors.forename: Claudio
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Kirner
mesh_terms: D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D018961:Educational Technology / Q000295:instrumentation*; D006801:Humans; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods*; D014584:User-Computer Interface