Virtual organizations (VOs) and their breeding environments are an emerging approach for developing systems as a consortium of autonomous entities formed to share costs and resources, better respond to opportunities, achieve shorter time-to-market and exploit fast changing market opportunities. VOs cater for those demands by incorporating reconfigurations making VOs highly resilient and agile b...

This paper gives an overview of some of the choices that have been considered in the process of designing a virtual language tutor, and the direction we have decided to take based on these choices.

In this paper we present some work aiming at creating a virtual language tutor. The ambition is to create a tutor that can be engaged in many aspects of language learning from detailed pronunciation training to conversational practise. Some of the crucial components of such a system are described. An initial implementation of a stress/quantity training tutor for Swedish will be presented.

This chapter provides an overview of second language learning and an approach on how wireless collaborative virtual reality can contribute to resolving important pedagogical challenges. Second language learning provides an exceptional opportunity to employ mobility and multimedia in the context of justin-time-learning in formal learning situations, or ubiquitous and lifelong learning in more in...

We describe our implementation of several eecient parallel algorithms on the massively parallel SIMD machine MasPar MP-1 with virtual processing. The MPL language that we used on the MasPar MP-1 does not support virtual processing. In this paper, we describe the implementation of virtual processing for several combi-natorial algorithms using the MPL language. We present our data allocation sche...

Language learning occurring in authentic contexts has been shown to be more effective. Virtual worlds provide simulated contexts that have the necessary elements of authentic contexts for language learning, and as a result, many studies have adopted virtual worlds as a useful platform for language learning. However, few studies so far have examined the relationship between learning outcomes and...

This goal of this paper is to enhance VE practitioners’ language assessment literacy. To do so, it begins with an overview practices commonly used in for evaluating the complex and multifaceted nature competence. These include following: (1) approaches that evaluate change learners’ use over time, (2) employ pre- posttest learning outcomes, (3) rely on student self-report or self-documentation ...