Is Virtual-Physical or Physical-Virtual Manipulatives in Physics Irrelevant within Studio Physics Environment?

Learning Physics in a Virtual Environment: Is There Any?

With nearly one in five college students taking at least one course online, with nearly every major college and university offering courses and/or programs online and with a growing number of citizens in the work place wanting and needing education in ways which fit their work and personal schedules, e-learning is becoming more important and ubiquitous each year. The supply (courses) is there i...

Second Life Physics: Virtual, real, or surreal?

Science teaching detached itself from reality and became restricted to the classrooms and textbooks with their overreliance on standardized and repetitive exercises, while students keep their own alternative conceptions. Papert, displeased with this inefficient learning process as early as 1980, championed physics microworlds, where students could experience a variety of laws of motion, from Ar...

Collaborative Studio in a Virtual Environment

Recently, Virtual Environments (VE) are increasingly used as settings for design and research. Using VE to visualize ideas from the initial steps of design, the architect is challenged to deal with perception of space, solid and void, without translations to and from a two dimensional media. The goal of our studies was to identify how designers use and communicate early design ideas by using im...

Combining the Virtual and Physical Interaction Environment

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Control within a Virtual Environment Is Correlated to Functional Outcomes When Using a Physical Prosthesis