E-Junior: a serious virtual world for natural science and ecology learning
The objective of this study is to present the E-Junior application: a serious virtual world (SVW) for teaching children natural science and ecology. E-Junior was designed according to pedagogical theories and curricular objectives in order to help students learn about the Mediterranean Sea and its ecological issues while playing. In this paper, we present the technical description of E-Junior and its pedagogical and curricular foundations.
National teams of students who participated in 2012 Erasmus Intensive Program ’Library, Information and Cultural Management – Academic Summer School’ were asked to do researches on public libraries on Facebook in their countries. In the paper some of the results are presented and discussed.