The sum of the parts is greater than the whole in online graduate education

Hesser, Lois Ann; Hogan, Robert P.; Mizell, Al P.

doi:10.1007/3-540-55578-1_76

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“…By Constance M. Johnson, Allison Vorderstrasse and Ryan Shaw, Duke University School of Nursing Distance education enabled learning has existed for nearly three centuries (Hesser, Hogan, & Mizell, 1992). In 1728 Caleb Phillips advertised a short hand correspondence in the Boston Gazette (Battenberg, 1971).…”

Section: Virtual Worlds In Health Care Higher Educationmentioning

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Virtual Worlds in Health Care Higher Education

Johnson

Vorderstrasse

Shaw

2009

JVWR

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Advances in information technology bring progress in distance education. Online education programs are pervasive, however, only recently has the Web 2.0 brought about interactive, dynamic distance based health care education in virtual worlds (VWs). VWs allow for real time representations of environments, manipulable objects and interactions between avatars or bots, creating a sense of realism and presence that is absent in traditional, flat online education. Presence has been linked to knowledge transfer and better learning. Second Life®, currently the largest virtual world, has been used in higher education, including health care education at the Duke University School of Nursing. Students have indicated higher levels of satisfaction with the learning environment and quality of instruction in this VW compared to other online learning systems. There is a need for further research in online education in VWs, and room for growth in applications of VWs in education.

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Section: Virtual Worlds In Health Care Higher Educationmentioning

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Virtual Worlds in Health Care Higher Education

Johnson

Vorderstrasse

Shaw

2009

JVWR

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“…In a similar vein, the Electronic Classroom (ECR) aimed to provide a communication system which was ‘ closely patterned after the actual environment of the traditional classroom ’ ( Hesser et al ., 1992 ). This included a long‐term study into the effects of providing such an environment; preliminary results yielded ‘positive attitudes.’ Unlike the Virtual Classroom, ECR made use of UNIX tools to provide a basis for its email:, conferencing and bulletin‐board facilities.…”

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Computer systems for distributed and distance learning

Anderson

Jackson

2000

Computer Assisted Learning

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Network‐based learning is now such an important area that it would seem timely to examine progress to date and to draw conclusions regarding the direction of further research. This paper is the result of a survey of computer systems for distributed and distance learning, focusing on projects that help to illustrate the evolution of this important field. An examination such as this is important in its own right as a resource for other researchers wishing to pursue the subject further, but the survey also helps to highlight some of the major trends of past projects and to suggest some of the ways in which progress may be made in the future.

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The sum of the parts is greater than the whole in online graduate education

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Virtual Worlds in Health Care Higher Education

Virtual Worlds in Health Care Higher Education

Computer systems for distributed and distance learning

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