The collaboration project described in this paper revolves around the construction of a virtual Tower of Babel in a 3D Collaborative Virtual Environment (3D CVE). It involved students across three cooperating institutions, on three different continents in different time zones. It addresses the increasing need for students to engage in international collaboration, as much of today's Information and Communication Technology work demands it. This requires cross-cultural understandings with one's co-collaborators, yet there are few opportunities for this to occur in a pedagogical setting. Therefore, this paper discusses a pedagogically-oriented case study of the use of a 3D CVE as a multi-cultural classroom, describing and discussing different phases in the cross-cultural collaborative process. © 2008 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.
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Prasolova-Førland, E., Wyeld, T., & Chang, T. W. (2008). Constructing a virtual tower of babel: A case study in cross-cultural collaboration across three continents. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 4820 LNCS, pp. 143–153). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-78566-8_13
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