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    Data in Depth: Web 3-D Technologies Provide New Approaches to the Presentation of Course Content

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    Lesko, Charles J. Jr.; Pickard, John L.
    Abstract
    For nearly two decades, the Web has provided the classroom with vast, ever-expanding volumes of browseraccessible information. As the web has evolved so too has our desire to become more involved with the process of content-creation and content-sharing. Now new web-based technologies look to provide smarter, more meaningful content and present that content with a new level of depth and interactivity. No longer are faculty and students browsing for information that is largely static; instead, these users are interacting through their three-dimensional (3-D) proxies (their avatars) and are querying applications (semantic web agents) soliciting them to collect, filter, verify, correlate, and present answers to their queries. Yet, all of this capability is not without potential challenges. There is an evolving need for faculty and students to find and build out new structure in their 3-D virtual surroundings that visually enables their content, making it more palatable to the user while presenting it in a 3-D format verses the typical 2-D format that has been the mainstay for the past two decades. With the maturation of virtual world (3-D Web) and semantic web technologies, the web-based content available in the classroom increases exponentially and takes on a new look. Following a brief overview of these two technologies and their overall impact in the classroom, this article presents several practical approaches for presenting course content in 3-D Web environments based on recent implementation efforts. In- World lectures and lab assignments, project team briefing sessions, student mentoring activities, and open conference forums are just a few of the areas discussed. Further discussions also focus on setup and future evaluation studies planned in the near-term to further evaluate course content presentation techniques.
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    http://hdl.handle.net/10342/3788
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     Virtual worlds; 3-D web; Collaboration; Communication; Content delivery 
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    2010
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    Lesko, Charles J. Jr., & Pickard, John L.. (January 2010). Data in Depth: Web 3-D Technologies Provide New Approaches to the Presentation of Course Content. Journal of Online Engineering Education, (1:2), p.1-6. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10342/3788

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    Lesko, Charles J. Jr., and Pickard, John L.. "Data in Depth: Web 3-D Technologies Provide New Approaches to the Presentation of Course Content". Journal of Online Engineering Education. 1:2. (1-6.), January 2010. December 14, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10342/3788.
    Chicago:
    Lesko, Charles J. Jr. and Pickard, John L., "Data in Depth: Web 3-D Technologies Provide New Approaches to the Presentation of Course Content," Journal of Online Engineering Education 1, no. 2 (January 2010), http://hdl.handle.net/10342/3788 (accessed December 14, 2019).
    AMA:
    Lesko, Charles J. Jr., Pickard, John L.. Data in Depth: Web 3-D Technologies Provide New Approaches to the Presentation of Course Content. Journal of Online Engineering Education. January 2010; 1(2) 1-6. http://hdl.handle.net/10342/3788. Accessed December 14, 2019.
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