European virtual classrooms: building effective “virtual” educational experiences

Building virtual educational environment

Nowadays, when there are more students in teaching groups than before, new problems may appear in learning processes. One of these is how to teach automation programming to 40 students if there is only one machine available for testing the programs. As a solution for this challenge we use simulation and virtualization, depending of the definition. The main idea in our solution is to build up a ...

Experiences from CSCW in Virtual Classrooms

The rapid development of modern information and communications technologies has opened new possibilities for establishing and delivering distance learning. In addition, the new learning paradigm based on cognitive learning theories can emphasize the quality of the learning process. The open learning environment that utilizes modern communications and information technologies can be described as...

Virtual Classrooms and Interactive

By the integration of high speed computer networks and interactive multi-media workstations, the IRI (Interactive Remote Instruction) System creates a geographically dispersed virtual classroom. Each student participates using a personal workstation which can be used to view multi-media class presentations, to make presentations, to take notes in a multi-media notebook, and to interact via audi...

Software for Supporting Virtual Classrooms

Virtual Classrooms: Making the Invisible, Visible

In this ‘work in progress’ paper, we describe research into e-learning and virtual reality at Shanghai Jiaotong University (SJTU) and Essex University respectively. We use our experience to propose a novel virtualised learning model and architecture to support online learners and teachers to visualize important learning related information that has hitherto been invisible to users of online lea...