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Investigating The Effectiveness Of Problem-Based Learning In 3d Virtual Worlds. A Preliminary Report On The Hadrian’S Villa Project, Lee Taylor-Helms, Lynne. Kvapil, John Fillwalk, Bernard Frischer Nov 2014

Investigating The Effectiveness Of Problem-Based Learning In 3d Virtual Worlds. A Preliminary Report On The Hadrian’S Villa Project, Lee Taylor-Helms, Lynne. Kvapil, John Fillwalk, Bernard Frischer

Lynne A. Kvapil

This paper discusses a recent study to test the effectiveness of combining 3D virtual worlds (VWs) with Problem Based Learning (PBL) in archaeological education of undergraduate college students at two American universities. The testbed used was a virtual world of Hadrian’s Villa at Tivoli (Italy), a World Heritage Site dating to the reign of Hadrian (117-138 CE). At both universities courses were offered on the villa using a PBL approach in such a way that the relative strengths and weaknesses of learning based on face-to-face, 2D, and VW presentations could be assessed. The study helped to clarify ways in which …


Agamemnon’S Human Resources: An Examination Of Mycenae’S Palatial Workforce, Lynne. Kvapil Nov 2014

Agamemnon’S Human Resources: An Examination Of Mycenae’S Palatial Workforce, Lynne. Kvapil

Lynne A. Kvapil

Abstract of paper presentation from: Annual Meeting of CAMWS, Iowa City, IA, April 2013.


Events Not Processes: Reassessing And Redating The Lower Fills Of The South Stoa Wells At Corinth, Guy D.R. Sanders, Yuki Furuya, Lynne. Kvapil Nov 2014

Events Not Processes: Reassessing And Redating The Lower Fills Of The South Stoa Wells At Corinth, Guy D.R. Sanders, Yuki Furuya, Lynne. Kvapil

Lynne A. Kvapil

Abstract from paper presented at: Pottery, Peoples and Places: the Late Hellenistic Period, c. 200-50 BC Between the Mediterranean and the Black Sea, International Conference at Sandbjerg Manor House, Aarhus, Denmark, November 2008. Available from: digitalcommons.butler.edu/facsch_papers/415/