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The paper addresses the purposes and design decisions produced while developing a peer-to-peer virtual world platform. The work is being done within the FP7 VirtualLife project. The purpose of the project is to create a safe, democratic and legally ruled collaboration environment. The novelty of the platform is mainly in the issues of security and trust and in the implementation of an in-world legal framework, which is real world compliant. In the paper the authors reflect on user needs and learning support in a university virtual campus, a potential scenario. The opportunities of a virtual world in enhancing learning are discussed. A new paradigm of the content is characterized as interaction versus information.
Supported by EU FP7 ICT VirtualLife project, 2008-2010, http://www.ict-virtuallife.eu
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Čyras, V., Lapin, K. (2010). Learning Support and Legally Ruled Collaboration in the VirtualLife Virtual World Platform. In: Grundspenkis, J., Kirikova, M., Manolopoulos, Y., Novickis, L. (eds) Advances in Databases and Information Systems. ADBIS 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5968. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12082-4_7
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